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

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

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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

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 ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung.