At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

A 177-year-old glass and wrought-iron Palm House is the centrepiece of London’s Kew Gardens, where feature writer Ian Brown paid a visit for a story about a massive renovation under way.