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

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. Meanwhile, fossils in Spain suggest a potentially new human species, altering our ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. The mission, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to investigate key elements of cosmology ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...