Whilst the interstellar visitor was out of view, it appears to have changed course slightly, brightened, and may have lost ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

I/ATLAS sent a message to Earth after it passed its perihelion. Scientists found the interstellar object brightened fivefold ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant ...

Astronomers have broken two records in one thanks to an incredible serendipitous alignment of cosmic objects. It's the highest resolution detection of a gravitationally lensed radio arc, and within it ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...