Submillimetre Telescope, FIRST, will be re-named the ‘Herschel Space Observatory’. This was announced this morning by ESA’s Director of Science, Roger Bonnet, during the opening of the FIRST ...

LONDON — Car crashes produce loud booms, but it is nothing compared to the shockwaves when two galaxies collide. That’s ...

Stephan's Quintet includes four distant galaxies that are connected through gravity and one galaxy that is much closer to us but just happens to lie in the same direction in the sky. Public domain via ...

There is no shortage of ambition packed into the rocket that lifted off from French Guiana at lunchtime on Thursday. The celestial mission carries two space telescopes that aim to unravel the universe ...

Dutch researchers in an international team of astronomers have discovered a star which will explode in the near future. The star is located in the constellation Cassiopeia. The researchers have ...

On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Of course, "Star Wars" wasn't a thing at the time, and no one had ever heard of something ...