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Trawling through academic archives can be an absolute drag: I've spent weeks up to my neck in old books, microfiche, loose paperwork, and scanned documents looking for a useful tidbit but coming up with bupkis. But every now and then, the digging ...

NASA's pushed-back Moon landing is making it clearer than ever that its stumbling in its race to the Moon with China.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant "jellyfish galaxy" ever seen -- a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds through a dense galaxy cluster. The galaxy ...

Eclipse will feature a deep, coppery-red full moon on 3 March. From Sydney to New York, use our guide to find out when the eclipse will be visible and the best time to see it tonight.

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

It won't happen again for another three years.

Look west after sunset this week to see the pair converge in the dusk, closing in on a near-conjunction on 8 March ...

Eclipse will feature a deep, coppery-red full moon on 3 March, with scientists predicting the best times to see it ...

A star thousands of times larger than the Sun just underwent a dramatic transformation that's a prelude to catastrophe.

Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted a Sun-like star forming a massive bubble called an astrosphere.