The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun's huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and its ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, as some researchers suspect, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe ...