The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Various reports have already signalled that the initial announcement – revealing everyone from Chris Hemsworth’s Thor to ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

There was a mysterious glowing spiral illuminating the sky above the UK last night, here's what it actually was ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

When US astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams touched back down to Earth after their prolonged nine-month stint in outer space, captivated viewers were quick to note Williams’ grey hair ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned home. They'll find their bodies changed after ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...