Astronomy

The Avengers won't be assembling for a little while longer, as Disney confirms 'Avengers: Doomsday' and 'Avengers: Secret Wars' delayed until to December 2026 and 2027 respectively.

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.

The skepticism continues over recent claims of possible hints of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b.

What if you could fly over

What if you could fly over

SpaceX has completed its investigation into what went wrong during the eighth test flight its Starship rocket, which ended in an explosion over the Bahamas.

It turns out "the one who is lost" goes way back in "Doctor Who" lore.

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and it means we will soon be able to capture color images of supermassive black holes.

Want to bring the cosmos into your home without breaking the bank? We've rounded up the best star projectors for under $100, from ambient to accurate.

A galactic collision 11 billion light-years away reveals how an actively feeding supermassive black hole disrupts star formation in a nearby galaxy.

On Episode 162 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the effort to make July 20 a national holiday called "Lunar Landing Day."

We recommend this unit as a great value-for-money non-scientific star projector. It boasts bright lights, a good loudspeaker and multiple music-streaming methods.

Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (May 9), carrying 26 Starlink satellites for the company's growing constellation.

SpaceX is aiming to launch its Starship Flight 9 test mission no earlier than Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT), but only if conditions allow.

An international team of researchers has announced the preliminary findings of Webb's observations of the Alpha Centauri system. According to their analysis, Webb could detect a Jupiter-sized planet and a very bright zodiacal dust disk around Alpha Cen A. More information will be released soon!

US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would cost hundreds of billions of dollars – and could accelerate the weaponisation of space

US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would cost hundreds of billions of dollars – and could accelerate the weaponisation of space

It was a race against the rising sun as astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a fleeting cosmic moment before dawn’s light washed the scene away.

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the Sun and come to within 1.3 astronomical units of Earth. However, they may have to expand their search since astronomers are now finding asteroids co-orbiting Venus that could pose a threat.