Astrochemistry investigates the chemical processes that drive the evolution of stars, planets and galaxies. The field plays a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again delivered a mesmerizing view of the cosmos, this time capturing the ...

Following his triumphant return with The Next Day and Blackstar, David Bowie managed a handful more recordings before his ...

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star’s surface, it punched through, ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed that infrared glow, revealing fine details resembling the knots and whorls of wood grain. These observations are allowing astronomers to map the true 3D ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Astronomers from ...

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot and self-interacting.

A supermassive black hole 100 million light-years away is behaving like nothing scientists have ever seen, emitting X-ray flashes at a pace that keeps accelerating. Could a spinning white dwarf be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...