Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.

The team made the discovery when studying the distant Dragon Arc galaxy, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Dragon Arc is located behind a massive cluster of galaxies ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

More than 40 new stars have been discovered - thanks to a telescopic magnification trick. It is believed to be the first time ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

The carbon atoms in your body have likely traveled much farther than you have, possibly hundreds of thousands of light-years ...

Physicists studying a distant galaxy using a telescopic technique called "gravitational lensing" found 44 previously unknown ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, ...