After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other.

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair. The surprise discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Te...

Information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched on July 23, 1999, its mission and goals, and the people who built it.

In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. After over three decad...

I’ll bet you don’t spend a ton of time thinking about Deimos.

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, has confirmed the existence of a lone black hole. In their paper published in The Astrophysic...

One of the giant dome doors of Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope has been installed, marking a key milestone in the observatory’s construction.

Astrophysics team say observation of chemical compounds may be ‘tipping point’ in search for extraterrestrial life

‘Each of these eruptions is releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere.’

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has proven otherwise.

JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found. New observations from show that the galaxy has oxygen.

If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be interested to know that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that it's 28 seconds longer than previously thought.

Finding a mystery in Sagittarius C.