At a distance of only 50 million light-years away, the Virgo Cluster is the nearest galaxy cluster to us. It's…
The Milky Way is a messy eater. When it collides with other galaxies and consumes them, it leaves shredded collections…
Our Solar System takes a very consistent journey as it completes an orbit around the centre of the Milky Way…
Brand new planetary systems take much longer to form than previously thought, according to new data gathered by the Spitzer…
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up a relatively close globular star cluster that was obscured by dust and invisible…
Researchers from Caltech have looked deep into space to a time when early material in the Universe was swirling towards…
Astronomers using the Gemini observatories have got themselves a bit of a mystery. They've found a binary system at EF…
On October 9, 1604, a new star appeared in the sky as bright as any of the planets. Johannes Kepler,…
Living at the centre of the Milky Way would be beautiful, but dangerous, according to research from the Harvard Smithsonian…
Supernovae are easy to see - after they've gone off. But it's impossible to find the stars beforehand, so you…