There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

According to astronomers, the last time this planet came close to the Sun was in 1930. In the same year, Pluto was discovered ...

In common usage, UT refers to a time scale called Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated UTC ), which is the basis for the ...

A new member of the solar system has been detected, the second-largest of its kind, suggesting there may be more like it ...

A team of Chinese astronomers has discovered a binary star system, comprising a millisecond pulsar and a helium-rich ...

Nuclear fusion's proponents describe the opportunity to dominate what is set to become a £30trn sector as the 'UK's Nasa ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

Artist Terry Maker likens her recent work to a journey through deep space, an adventure “out of this world and into a place ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged the core of star cluster IC 348, where astronomers discovered three free-floating brown ...

The night sky in June 2025 promises a spectacular array of celestial events that will captivate amateur astronomers and sky ...