A fascinating asteroid nammed 1998 OR2 pays our neck of the inner solar system a visit early Wednesday morning, and if skies are clear, you might just get a chance to watch it slide by.

After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, scientists have confirmed yet again that Einstein was right!

NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Astronomers have found a star system with six exoplanets that orbit with an almost perfect 3:2 resonance.

In another first, the latest gravitational wave event to be detected came from the merger of two black holes of vastly different mass.

After 30 years, Hubble is still providing us with breathtaking images - like this one of NGC 2273, a spiral galaxy that has arms within arms!

Using the ALMA array, astronomers were able to detect the chemical composition of an interstellar object as 2I/Borisov began releasing gas from its interior.

Just prior to the isolation order, commercial launch provider Rocket Lab conducted a successful mid-air recovery of a test stage, paving the way for reusable rockets.

Stuck at home with clear skies? We're all in a similar situation, as the ongoing pandemic sees most of the worldwide amateur astronomy community observing from home or from their backyard. One astronomical sure-fire event coming up this week requires no special equipment: just a set of working Mk-1 eyeballs and a clear sky: the April Lyrids.

A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct image of Proxima c (which could have a system of rings)