In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

The summer solstice marks the beginning of astronomical summer each year, typically falling between June 20 and June 22. In ...

Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, to help them track down some of the missing matter in the universe. Dark matter and ...

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 26 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has a launch window beginning Monday, ...

Using machine learning to analyse data from a powerful black hole observatory, researchers found the black hole at the centre ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 26 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled for Thursday, June 12 ...