The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...