A team of international astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity unlike anything seen before: a galaxy bent by gravity into an Einstein Cross with not four but five distinct images.

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Human exploration of the universe is truly endless, always leading to new surprises. On September 4 this year, NASA, the ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

The horologists behind Vacheron Constantin’s La Quête du Temps reveal how they crafted the mechanical masterpiece to mark the ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilisation would ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

In the vast and boundless universe, every star tells its own story. Recently, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed a new secret of the Milky Way—those star clusters and ...