See that strip of stars splashed across the night sky? That's our home galaxy, the Milky Way. You can see it from Earth because we live on its very outskirts, far away from all the fun stuff happening ...

This image by Taiwanese photographer Shang Yao-Yuan shows that you don't need the latest kit to capture the cosmos ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

The creation comes after the American firm conducted research and found that 32 per cent of adults admit their knowledge is ...

Spotted: An object moving 1 million mph and zooming out of the Milky Way! Citizen scientists found the speeding stellar ...

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three ...

The shower peaks overnight on 13 and 14 December, but meteors can be seen in the days before and after this. To see them use ...

Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...