THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, ...

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégé . Read on to see ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

THE British legend that is Sir David Attenborough has launched a new attraction that feels like stepping straight into his documentaries. From watching a pack of gazelles try to outpace a hungry ...

Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers 'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...