They were observed by NASA’s £400 million Kepler probe which was launched in 2009 to seek out new worlds. Kepler is keeping constant watch on more than 100,000 stars in one small region of the Milky ...

It wasn’t always junk. The latest doomed craft, called ROSAT, is a German space telescope, partly built in the UK and controlled by NASA, that observed in X-ray light from 1990 to 1999 in an orbit 575 ...

The planet, labelled Gliese 581g, lies just 20 light-years away from our own solar system in the constellation of Libra. After 11 years of study, scientists are confident that the planet lies bang in ...

The findings come as a surprise to an international team of astronomers at the University of Toronto, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan as it ...

Some of the prime targets for small telescopes that I wrote about in my previous article in January 2008 are no longer well positioned for viewing. So here are some more that you can seek out in ...

An amateur astronomer has captured the moment a small asteroid skimmed past the Earth yesterday, coming to within 46,000 km (29,000 miles) of us. Patrick Wiggins, of Utah, recorded the cosmic missile ...

Uranus and Neptune are both giant worlds in the far reaches of the solar system which means they can never shine with the luster of, say, Jupiter or Saturn. Uranus is, in theory, just bright enough to ...