The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... the age of the universe." An illustration showing the first ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

A comparison between J2345-0449 and our much small galaxy the Milky Way | Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Hubble ... we've never seen one from Sgr A*. An illustration of a tidal disruption event which ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...