New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

When the astronomer first saw the image she was 'excited', but then an entirely new feeling took over. Find out more.

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Scientists have detected complex organic ices around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first such discovery beyond the Milky Way ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

A faint glow detected in the Milky Way could potentially be ... is reshaping our understanding of the galaxy’s hidden ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...