The first UK visitor was a female butterfly and was spotted at Landguard Nature Reserve on 2 August by volunteer Will Brame, ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal site in the sparsely populated Atacama Desert in northern ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

New research uncovered compelling evidence — with the aid of a Big Island telescope atop Mauna Kea — that water from a comet ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close ...

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This image by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy. AP The image spans 65,000 light-years, almost the entire galaxy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...