In what is the first discovery of an Einstein zig-zag lens in the universe, a team of international astronomers have sighted ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

Astronomers have performed a comprehensive multiwavelength study of an extremely variable blazar known as AO 0235+164.

The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...