Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

The Subaru Telescope on Maunakea will be able to observe more than 2,000 celestial objects at once with a new instrument that will go online in February.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

MILES O'BRIEN: Well, Geoff, if you could imagine a baby picture of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, this is probably ... As objects move away from us, as they are post-Big Bang, they move into ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...