There were lots of ideas about what we might see, but the Universe is full of surprises. One of the first surprises was the ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a remarkable cosmic mystery that could rewrite astronomy textbooks.

The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any ...

Astronomers wonder, "How did it grow up so fast?" ...

The active centres of galaxies might be regions of extraordinary planet formation, where millions of worlds are born. Most ...

Astrophysicists think that black hole masses are hierarchical. The largest are supermassive black holes (SMBH) like the one ...

For several years, astronomers have observed small dense gas clouds falling toward the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* ...

The latest from the James Webb Space Telescope could completely change what we know about the formation of these astronomical ...

Scientists have long thought that galaxies evolved first, while the black holes at their center formed after from the collapse of large stars. Recent observations by Webb, however, tell a different ...

Fear not, these lasers are just doing science.

Sagittarius B2 is a cloud sitting at the centre of our galaxy. It is filled with drinking alcohol laced with poisonous ...