An invisible world, a rectangular nebula, and a galaxy holding a smaller version of itself - here are the standouts IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar ...

Mysore/Mysuru: Renowned astronomer Dr. B.S. Shylaja, Visiting Scientist and former Director of the Jawaharlal Nehru ...

Saturn’s Moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star”, has revealed a new secret. A “remarkably young” ocean appears to be hiding under the icy, cratered surface of the world that led to it being named after ...

Proxima d is the third planet to have been spotted circling Proxima Centauri four light years away Astronomers have found evidence for a new planet circling Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

A new planet like Star Wars' Tatooine detected outside of our solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. The exoplanet 120 light years away takes an unusual path around ...

Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves Neptune’s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our solar system to collide. The research, presented in ...

Made up of billions of objects, the Solar System has been studied for generations - but there is still so much to learn about it. Full of celestial bodies orbiting the Sun, the Solar System is roughly ...

Scientists have captured the birth of a new solar system for the very first time. These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.