For the past few days, the media has been abuzz with one of the most peculiar astronomical observations ...

Watching meteors in the night sky can be fun, although typically you only see a few flashes an ...

The best meteor shower of the year should put on an impressive display this weekend – weather permitting ...

A detailed study of comets orbiting the young nearby star Beta Pictoris was published yesterday in the journal ...

As Earth orbits the sun, it continually ploughs through dust and debris left behind by passing comets and ...

Over the past two decades, almost 1,500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting distant stars – but Dutch astronomers ...

The more we learn about the formation and evolution of our solar system, the more we realise it ...