The James Webb Space Telescope has just observed the oldest dead galaxy, that is, one in which the birth of new stars has ...

Mankind has been looking at the stars for millennia, wondering if were alone in the universe. We now have the best proof that ...

Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just observed the oldest dead galaxy, that is, one in which the birth of new stars has ...

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper demonstrating that the universe is expanding. It gave rise to the Hubble ...

Judging by the volume of messages that I, too, received on Wednesday night, a great many people interpreted the Times ’ push ...

Though visually dynamic, it shows minimal star formation and hosts a massive but dormant black hole. The galaxy's unique hybrid structure—featuring traits of both spiral and elliptical ...

Planet K2-18b is very unlikely to be a one-off in the vast universe - meaning many others that are similar likely exist too.

Evidence of biological activity outside the solar system can potentially change the way the night sky is fundamentally perceived, from seeing it as a physical, inanimate sky to thinking of it as a ...