Scientists from the University of Southampton are to turn the Moon into a giant particle detector to help understand the…

The term black hole is entrenched in the English language. Can we let it go?

Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywo…

A supermassive black hole discovered in an ultracompact dwarf galaxy has prompted researchers to question if similar mas…

High-energy observations with the INTEGRAL space observatory have revealed a surprising signal of gamma-rays from the su…

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar…

Magnetic reconnection in the Earth and sun's atmospheres can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service,…

An international team of scientists led by a Clemson University astrophysicist has discovered new evidence that planets…

Using a radio telescope with frequencies just above those of commercial FM radio stations, a European team of astronomer…

"These results challenge our current understanding of planet formation"

A team of astronomers has made the most precise measurements yet of water vapour in the atmospheres of Jupiter-like plan…

New research from UCL shows we will soon uncover the origin of the ultraviolet light that bathes the cosmos, helping sci…

Saturn’s auroras are caused by the same phenomenon which leads to dramatic auroral displays on Earth, University of Leicester research shows

University of Leicester researchers have captured stunning images of Saturn’s auroras as the planet’s magnetic field is…

PHYSICISTS A STEP CLOSER TO FINDING MYSTERIOUS SOURCES

An observatory run by the University of Utah found a hotspot beneath the Big Dipper emitting a disproportionate number o…

Laser adaptive optics systems are used by terrestrial telescopes to remove the image-blurring effects of Earth’s turbule…

UMD and NASA astronomers track an intermediate-mass black hole from syncopated flares of light

The universe has so many black holes that it's impossible to count them all. There may be 100 million of these intriguin…

Their results, including the possibility that liquid water may be reaching all the way to the surface, are presented in…

Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets…

Two new planets orbiting a very old star in our nearby galaxy, known as Kapteyn’s star, are reported in a new study by a…

With a key funding approval, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an international astronomy project of which the Univer…

For years, scientists have tried to explain the intense luminosity of quasars in the early universe. Quasars’ light is p…

The three planets, HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-12b, are between 60 and 900 light-years away. These giant gaseous wo…