"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

An idea that calls for the creation of inflatable starshades for telescopes has been recognized by NASA as part of the ...

But it will actually be painful to look at because, unlike the full moon that is this gorgeous disk in the sky, Betelgeuse is ...

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe isn't what we believed it to be. This hints that our best ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

Professor Brian Cox explains how evidence for the Big Bang can be found by analysing the colour of starlight ... this as evidence for an expanding universe. This clip is from the series Wonders ...