Two Earth-like planets could be orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri, our closest star system, astronom...

South Korea and the United States will launch a massive landing drill next week, the climax of an on...

Scientists have detected a possible Saturn-like ring system around the minor planet Chiron, making i...

Astronomers using a telescope, fitted with an optics system developed by Indian researchers and coll...

Astronomers have identified the closest known flyby of a star that passed our solar system at a dist...

The new research, led by PhD student Tim Bovaird and Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver from The...

The US defence major under a contract awarded in December 2014 will deliver four RQ-4 Global Hawk UA...

The NuSTAR telescope, designed to study black holes, has taken its first picture of the Sun, produci...

China has completed construction of its most advanced space launch centre, designed to handle next g...