The show is a rare "triple conjunction" — when Venus, Saturn, and a thin crescent Moon align in the pre-dawn sky, resembling ...

US president Trump sets out his budget request for 2026, which if passed, will see science hit like never before, as Peter ...

"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s perspective, these two bright planets appeared to draw so close that they would ...

The conjunction between Mars and the bright blue star Regulus began on Monday (June 16) and will bring the two objects side by side in the night sky. A conjunction occurs when two celestial bodies ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.

“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.

Venus has long been called Earth's twin, because our sizes are so similar. But as we learned in the early 60s, on our surface we couldn't be more different. This wasn't always the case though. It's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the ...