In Star Trek, there is a huge number of background actors who walk around and look busy while the main cast delivers their lines. Occasionally, they'll say a word or two but they're mostly just there ...

In 2003, astronomers discovered a planet outside our solar system by measuring the way light from a distant star warped around the new world's host star. But it took two more years of telescope ...

The mass of a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a subject of some controversy for over a century. Now, a group of astronomers has finally made a precise measurement of ...

The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a subject of some controversy for over a century. Now, a group of astronomers has finally made a precise ...

According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the gravity from huge objects like stars and galaxies can curve the fabric of spacetime, to the point that passing light will bend from its usual ...

Martin Dominik received funding from Qatar National Research Fund, the Royal Society, and EPSRC. If you are looking at a glass lens you will not see the lens itself, but rather notice objects behind ...

The Big Dipper has a new star. One of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle's handle,Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion, new observations have revealed. Alcor is a relatively young star ...

Perhaps the luckiest planet in the Milky Way lives about 6,500 light-years away, toward the center of our galaxy: a large, gassy world that narrowly escaped being obliterated by its dying home star.

The stars of Orion, showing what was happening in London around the time the light left each star. Background star map by Nubobo, creative commons licence For more of all things London history, sign ...

When it comes to popular franchises, they don't come much more vast and intriguing than the iconic galaxy far, far away. Boasting countless fascinating worlds, colourful characters, epic tales, and ...