First spotted in September this year, the comet, known as C/2012 S1 (ISON), is rushing towards the S...

Tau Ceti - a Sun-like star lying at a distance of twelve light years from Earth - could be hosting f...

Scientists have found a disk of gas and dust around a young Sun-like star with spiral-arms, which ma...

Planets orbiting the scattered Sun-like stars around the Milky Way may be even more hospitable to li...

Jupiter, the largest celestial body after the Sun in the Solar System, will be at its biggest and br...

Australia has unveiled a new radio telescope in the remote outback that will give the world a vastly...

Researchers claim to have found fresh physical evidence that the Moon was born in a flaming blaze wh...

A group of European astronomers has for the first time detected an Earth-like planet in a nearby ste...

Scientists have found the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars, based on data p...