Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...

A team of astronomers looking at data from the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia were met with a ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

There's a variety of astronomical events in 2025 well worth planning a trip around this year—whether that means driving to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

Schools across Stoke-on-Trent are caught up in an increasingly bitter row over repairs, with some telling the BBC they've had ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited astronomers. It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long ...

The research team of Wang Jianli of the Chun Institute of Optics, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made ...