NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

An international team of astronomers says it has discovered supermassive, dust-shrouded black holes in seven galaxies, using a combination of telescopes on the Earth and in space.

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Using a specially designed solar telescope combined with an astronomy camera, he captured the rocket’s silhouette cutting through fiery shockwaves in the Sun’s plasma.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Scientists at the University of Reading are helping Nasa capture images of Jupiter using remore access to the Keck telescope.

On September 19, the waning crescent moon will rise with Venus and Regulus, while parts of the world see a rare occultation.

It was not until the early 1990s that the existence of planets orbiting other stars was confirmed, and now 6.000 are known. This number is likely to grow.