If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky ... much as our solar system's, similar ...

Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's creation, a new study ...