This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing fresh evidence that the universe grew up a lot more quickly than previously known, with observations of a ...

The Alpha Centaurids are active between January 31 and February 20, with peak activity on February 8. Stargazers can witness ...

Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed mid-infrared image of the Sombrero galaxy, revealing new features ...

How Mars built a $137bn confectionery empire, and why its latest moves in snacking, tech and global expansion have the entire ...

The chemical is pulsing deep within the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, in a compound that has 13 atoms.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

In the heart of our galaxy, scientists have discovered the largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever detected beyond Earth, with ...

The chemical is known as thiepine, or 2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-thione (C₆H₆S), a ring-shaped sulfur-bearing hydrocarbon produced in biochemical reactions. When examining the molecular cloud G+0.693–0.027, ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...