The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system’s asteroid belt, wasn’t just an asteroid...
The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The...
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance...
An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive,...
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star,...
Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as...
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of...
Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the...
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These...
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown...
