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Exclusive: It is imperative humans expand their understanding of space, argues Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Now,…

Discover interesting facts about when dinosaurs lived, why they died and how big they got

While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: a hidden star.

Relive the 2025 "Blood Worm Moon" total lunar eclipse with these breathtaking photos.

His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death”

As Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to come home after their unexpected nine-month ISS stay, here is what they may experience

Earth’s oceans rose faster than expected last year as the world experienced its hottest year on record, NASA says.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of…

The Moon turned a deep red on Friday morning, as its light was blocked out by the Earth