The universe is full of phenomena that have seemed unexplainable to human beings, but only until science had an answer for it ...

The relatively short-wavelength UV light produced by young ... were emitted by matter heated as it fell onto a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s centre. The compactness of the observed ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of ... how jets evolve from their origins near the black hole to many light-years into interstellar space.

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

Stupid question, but” is a column answering the not-so-stupid questions that, at this point, we’re all too afraid to ask. The ...

On hearing the word sky, a blue sheet appears in front of the eyes. But have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? And when ...

Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has now given researchers new detailed images of the universe's earliest ...

This gas absorbed short-wavelength light from any stars that shone before ... matter that was heated as it fell onto a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center. The galaxy’s compact ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

Only once the hydrogen gas had been made transparent to Lyman photos by higher-energy, shorter-wavelength radiation could such light shine out ... or a supermassive black hole.