Fourth-year undergraduate students aim to be the first to obtain reentry data with affordable, small spacecraft called HEDGE.

The telescope has been installed with the world's largest spectro-polarimeter, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF).

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...

Scientists are BAFFLED after spotting a lone black holeFrom your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel ...

Space exploration is meant to create a positive future. The legacy of Apollo, and of our robot explorers in the solar system ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

The planet, roughly the mass of Mercury, orbits its star extremely close, so close that its surface is likely covered in ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

This rare stellar remnant is known as a magnetar. It's a type of neutron star, which is formed when a large star dies and ...

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it!” is often misattributed to either Mr Spock or  Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy from Star Trek. The ...