See that bright object in the sky? That’s Andromeda – the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way and the most distant thing ...

It used to be said that you could test your eyesight by counting the number of stars visible to the unaided eye. The best nights to try this are around January 19 when the Moon is new ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

A 'shadow' cast on the faint, leftover glow of the Big Bang has revealed a giant object in the early Universe that defies our ...

The most startling revelation regarding 3I/ATLAS concerns its age. Associate Professor Michele Bannister of the University of ...

I/ATLAS discovery shocks scientists as the interstellar visitor exposes major blind spots in Earth's planetary defence and ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...