An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently made observations about galaxy clusters that will help shape our ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Star Trek first premiering in 1966, introducing science fiction fans to the crew of the US Enterprise. While Shatner’s ...