A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the night sky.

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An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Simply look to the western sky after sunset. The delicate form of the crescent moon is set to draw close to the planet ...

Judd Trump is into the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship thanks to a brilliant 13-10 win over Shaun Murphy at ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

The predawn hours of April 28 will see a planetary triangle form in the night sky, as Venus makes a close approach to Saturn following a conjunction, while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, will ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

When the solar wind reaches Earth, it slams into the planet’s magnetic field ... atoms to interfere with one another. (Why is the sky blue? Learn about it with your kids.) ...