Once a star has exhausted the nuclear fuel available in its core, it can no longer exert the necessary outward pressure to counteract the gravitational pressure from its own mass.

Hubble has made new observations of Jupiters Great Red Spot, revealing that the anticyclone is not as stable as it might appear.

Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the gap between the largest planets and the smallest stars.

Following the formation of baryonic matter just after the Big Bang, the universe entered a period known as the dark ages, where this matter drifted aimlessly through an otherwise empty cosmos.

On the 27th of August, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), observing from Sutherland, South Africa, captured data on asteroid 2024-PT5.

In 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover detected organic compounds in Martian rock samples, prompting further investigation into their implications for the planet's history.

It has been proposed by MIT physicists that if most of the dark matter in the universe is incorporated into microscopic primordial black holes, these should race through our solar system at least once per decade at veloci

Foundational cosmological models of structure formation, based on the growth of density perturbations in the early universe, do not account for the formation of objects as dense as black holes.

A cluster of bodies beyond the outer edge of the Kuiper belt have been discovered, pointing towards the potential existence of a population of small bodies further out that are yet to be discovered.

The detection of six free floating planet candidates by a team using JWST could provide insight into the formation process of stars and planets.

Worlds outside of our solar system – or exoplanets – are challenging to directly to observe compared to stars and galaxies.

A reservoir of liquid water on mars has been discovered after new analysis of data from NASAs Mars Insight Lander.