New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

A distant chemical signature, captured by the infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope, has just opened a new window ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

When the astronomer first saw the image she was 'excited', but then an entirely new feeling took over. Find out more.

Scientists have detected complex organic ices around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first such discovery beyond the Milky Way ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...