Where do the universe's heavy elements, like gold and platinum, actually come from? New evidence points to the stars.

Astronomers accidentally caught a glimpse of an "invisible" galaxy so mysterious that scientists weren't sure it actually existed.

“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. 

BBC Radio 5 Live speaks to a space gynaecologist about the impact of space travel on female astronauts.

Gas from the upper reaches of the protoplanetary disk flows in to fill gaps that forming planets create near nearly formed stars, research finds.

A UK-assembled European spacecraft aims to take the closest ever pictures and movies of the Sun.

Two astronauts are about to make the first all-female spacewalk.

Scientists are developing the techniques to spot mass stranding events from orbit.

Mars once had salt lakes, similar to some on Earth. Scientists now have an idea as to what happened to them.

New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation.