Contrary to our understanding of star formation, large stars don't appear to form the same way as smaller ones.
Researchers have put forward the idea of hollowing out an asteroid and using it to travel between the stars.
Astronomers from ESA's Gaia mission will tomorrow release the largest map of our galaxy ever created.
A table-sized antenna has picked up the fingerprints of the first ever stars to emerge after the Big Bang.
Scientists have found the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes control the formation of stars.
The world-famous physicist hopes that his doctorate will encourage people to 'look up at the stars'.
For the first time ever, gravitational waves and light have been picked up from the same cosmic event.
New evidence has suggested that all the sunlike stars in the universe may have formed together in pairs.
Astronomers have observed a distant white dwarf star shifting the position of another star in the sky.
New evidence has been found to support the idea that matter vanishes when it falls in to a black hole.
Professor Stephen Hawking has teamed up with NASA to design and develop an interstellar nano-starship.
Extrasolar planets may not be the only place where it is possible to find signs of extraterrestrial life.
Two Canadian astronomers have found possible signs that an alien civilization is trying to communicate.
The European Space Agency has unveiled a map of our galaxy charting the positions of 1.1 billion stars.
The discovery of an Earth-like world around Proxima Centauri has spurred on efforts to send a probe there.
A vast expanse of space totally devoid of new stars has been found at the heart of our own galaxy.
Special structures enabled early Europeans to view the stars long before the invention of the telescope.
The SETI Institute is aiming to find evidence of aliens in a place where nobody had thought to look.
The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a group of massive stars over 170,000 light years away.
Two massive stars locked in a deadly embrace have been discovered over 160,000 light years away.