"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

For decades, scientists have been chasing one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. Thought to make up about 85% ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the mysterious form of unobserved matter which could make up 85% of the mass of ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is in continuous turmoil, observations made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed 1.

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

Astronomers have found an unexpectedly bright and chemically complex galaxy from the first 300 million years of the ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...