Astronomers have known for some time that nearby supernovae have had a profound effect on Earth’s evolution. For starters, Earth’s deposits of...

Three astronomers tell the BBC what planets are on display in the sky above the UK this week.

For more than 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals coming from the Helix Nebula, a cloud of gas left behind by a dying...

A rare celestial event will unfold on the evening of Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, when seven planets line up in the night sky in a phenomenon called...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about five-and-a-half billion light-years away. The...

There are plenty of types of stars out there, but one stands out for being just a little weirder than the others. You might even say it’s strange....

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery about how young stars form in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy near the Milky Way. Using...

On February 28th, a rare astronomical event will occur as seven planets of our solar system align in the sky, a phenomenon known as the “planetary...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have found what may be a rare three-body system in the Kuiper...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets. While sulfur itself is not...