Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

For over a decade, the NASA telescope has captured various beautiful pictures of space. These pictures show us various ...

Scientists have finally worked out where the most common kinds of planets come from. “The four planets we studied will likely ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...