California start-up has been commercialising NASA battery tech that it claims does away with fire risks of incumbent ...

The discovery of Kepler-51e sheds light on the unusual transit patterns of the system's existing super-puff planets.

On Friday, Dec. 6, Jupiter will reach a distance of 380 million miles from our planet, its closest point if the year. That’s ...

It was a good year for space science as Sumner Starrfield, an astronomer at Arizona State University, described what was to ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky ...

Researchers have discovered and are observing dark shapes appearing on the surface of Jupiter, with each of these 'dark ovals ...

A pair of spacecraft are launching on a mission to observe the sun's corona by one casting a precise shadow from which the ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

The Hubble Space Telescope may be living our dream of wandering through the cosmos. It's the year 2000. We're floating in ...

Jupiter reaches opposition; meanwhile, the star Canopus shines bright and the constellation Pictor offers many gems to view.