The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead...

It's one of the smallest exoplanets found thus far

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.

Dark energy accounts for as much as 72% of the Universe's matter and energy content and drives the accelerating expansion...

You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come...

By directly measuring the mass of a protoplanetary disc, astronomers have begun to unravel the mystery of planet formation.

Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.

A mysterious blinking giant star found at the heart of the Milky Way represents another example of a rare eclipsing...

A newly conducted in-depth cosmic census has revealed that star-forming molecular clouds come in an array of shapes and sizes.

Not only do gravitational waves represent the ultimate confirmation of the theory of General Relativity, they will provide us with...

The Dark Energy Survey has delivered its first results providing one of the most detailed pictures of the Universe ever...

A key ingredient of every living cell has been discovered in space, with an influence on theories of how life...

Astronomers have discovered iron and nickel vapour in the atmospheres of comets distant from the Sun and surrounding the interstellar...

The Standard Model is our best description of the subatomic world. Join ZME for a stroll through the particle zoo.

A pair of quasars closer together than any others previously observed could help researchers understand supermassive black hole binaries.

Black holes have firmly moved from the status of theoretical curiosity to physical reality. We follow that transformation and the...

The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to...

The mass-energy equivalence is the crown jewel of special relativity, explaining the phenomena that power the stars, our homes, and...

A new image of M87's black hole in polarized light gives us a spectacular view of the powerful spacetime event.