Grey seals have different types of personality that affect the extent to which they guard and care for their young, according to new research.

Astronomers from the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) have produced a completely new catalogue of ~15,000 groups of galaxies that gives a new insight into dark matter, the material of unknown composition that makes up a fifth of the mass of the Universe.

A British-based team of astronomers has discovered carbon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of Pluto, after a worldwide search lasting for nearly two decades.

A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how would a binary star system affect life evolving on an orbiting planet?

Jupiter-like worlds around other stars push shock waves ahead of them, according to a team of UK astronomers.