Pupils in West Wales have been floating in microgravity, exploring the International Space Station, and journeying through black holes as part of ...

Pupils in West Wales have been floating in microgravity, exploring the International Space Station, and journeying through black holes as part of a new virtual reality education programme giving ...

A smaller black hole merging with and consuming a companion star, leading to an explosion.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most direct evidence yet that a rocky planet orbiting ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...

What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

For decades, astronomers assumed that small, rocky planets in precarious proximity to their stars were destined to be barren, ...