Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend ... far smaller than even the tiniest microscopic objects—such as atoms, bacteria, or viruses—are to us.

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

More efficiently detecting FRBs and other phenomena will allow scientists to fine-tune our understanding of the universe, which currently lacks an explanation for where an estimated 85 per cent of ...