Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much as a star like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

Since each telescope would have a slightly different vantage point ... the authors show that such a system should find clear ...

With the final supermoon of the year and the peak of one of the most famous meteor shower displays, this weekend will be ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

You can watch the full moon rise live from Italy, in a free livestream courtesy of astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

This Friday night will be clear, so I highly encourage you to go out and look to the east as the moon rises. It will have ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...