It seems counterintuitive, but ESA's newest space telescope, CHEOPS, is designed to take blurry images of stars. But this helps astronomers to understand more about orbiting exoplanets than a clear image would. Here's why!

Astronomers observed a black hole sucking in a faraway star, shredding it into thin strands of stellar material.

Why wasn't it Hubble that imaged M87*, or Messier 87's supermassive black hole? Is the Event Horizon Telescope more powerful?

A conversation with Geert Barentsen, the Guest Observer Office director for the Kepler and K2 mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

NASA Deputy Director of Astrophysics Jeff Volosin discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.

Scientists found a giant planet 325 light years away, but its very existence proves there’s something wrong with science.

What size is the universe? How big is the cosmos? Our solar system is just a particle of our galaxy. Are there other galaxies?

The universe is incredibly

vast:

Earth: 12,000 kilomete
rs in diameter.
Solar...

Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million...

In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one of the brightest...

Why is everything within 250 million light years being pulled towards the Great Attractor?

Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and it has fundamentally changed what we...

This is a story about how humans in 1054 AD witnessed the supernova that created the crab nebula.

Hubble has taken some spectacular images of many different galaxies, but it can't resolve more than a few blobs on Pluto's surface. Why is that?

Time and space can be a bit baffling. The universe is expanding, but from which point? Where is the centre of the universe?

Astrum shows what a supervoid really is, and explains why this image isn't one.

A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary...

In this video, we're going to look at the three different types of triangle construction.

One type of object that some astronomers study is called a quasar. When these were first discovered, it was a bit confusing as to precisely what they are, which is why quasar stands for quasi-stellar object, since we thought they looked...

When we eventually develop the capacity to leave our solar system, we will be ready to visit countless other worlds. Where will we go first? Probably the closest system to ours, since it'll be the fastest. Which system is that? The Alpha...

What really is a nebula, and are we in fact in one? What is the Local Interstellar Cloud?

A star dies in outer space.

Jan.18 -- A team at NASA’s JPL is proposing a mission that will let us see planets in other solar systems. Bloomberg’s Moonshots talks with the scientist behind what could be the most powerful telescope ever built, with a little help...