The video shows the remarkable annual event at Lost Lake in Oregon, which fills up every winter and empties like a ba...

Astronomers have identified the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date, as seen in this Hubble ...

The Eta Aquarids – a meteor shower associated with Halley's comet – will peak on tomorrow, 5 May and 6 May.The dust c...

300 years ago, on 3 May 1715, a rare solar eclipse occurred over England. It was the first to be predicted on the bas...

Bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto have been seen for the first time, with scientists speculatin...

This brilliant image of a star nursery has been released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the NASA Hubble Space T...

Many think it might.

The European Space Agency certainly does. It has funded a program to produce americium-241 – the end product of the d...

NASA is bringing together experts from all scientific fields in an initiative dedicated to the search for life on pla...

Carole Mundell, University of Bath Astronomers have found evidence of a giant void that could be the largest known s...

This week, NASA is celebrating 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope. On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle Discovery...

Some scientists are convinced more planets exist in our Solar System. By Richard A. Lovett.

Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft during its planned encounter with Pluto and its largest moon, Charon....

Astronomers believe that a white dwarf star may have ripped apart a planet at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy as it ...