Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...