Cheyenne Hunt is using her platform to help sexual assault survivors share their stories, even if that means upsetting fellow ...

The universe’s expansion makes cosmic distance far less intuitive than simply measuring how long light has traveled.

Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when ...

JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4696. A vast ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes the ...

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the ...

Around 1,350 light years away from Earth is a star called TOI-2155. It’s a little bigger, heavier and hotter than the Sun, and it’s not particularly interesting or unusual in itself. But orbiting ...

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological ...

Radio image of Porphyrion. (Martijn Oei, Caltech/LOFAR Collaboration) There are plenty of mind-bendingly large structures in ...

They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant ...

While the fish has become more popular with anglers and on food menus, not a lot is known about the ones that inhabit the ...

One of the year's best meteor showers is about to begin. Here's what to know about the Perseid meteor shower - and how to see ...