There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb currently says there is a 30-40 percent chance the object is not natural in origin.

Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

This newly discovered comet could soon glow bright enough for the naked eye as it sweeps through October's morning and ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Knighton Primary School takes the environment very seriously, and has its own Eco Council run by the students. Recently they ...

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...