To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

Adventure doesn’t stop after dark in Scotland, from twilight kayaking along the River Tay to pitch-black bungee jumps in the ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

As East Lancashire awaits the arrival of the planetary alignment, four sites in Pennine Lancashire have been identified as the best places to ...

IT is hard concentrating on a launch pad – even one about to send a hulking rocket into space – when in the foreground, herons are fishing ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has created a 2.5-billion-pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbour ...

The MeerKAT radio telescope, located in the Northern Cape, has made an extraordinary discovery – a giant radio galaxy named ‘Inkathazo’, meaning “trouble” in the isiXhosa and isiZulu languages, that ...

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.