The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – though we have studied...

ON October 6, 1995, an astronomical turning point occurred: the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. This world, named 51 Pegasi...

For millions of years, a frozen fragment of ice and dust wandered alone between the stars, like a sealed bottle drifting in a cosmic ocean. Earlier...

For decades, we’ve known that Mars is a dusty world. Its red surface is constantly shaped by wind, storms, and whirlwinds that dance across its...

For patients living with severe obesity, finding medical care can be an uphill battle. A new Northwestern Medicine study has revealed that more than...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough in the search for the universe’s most mysterious substance—dark matter. They have discovered the...

In a rare astronomical event, comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, is passing through our solar system in 2025. Traveling at an astonishing speed...

In a rare astronomical event, comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, is passing through our solar system in 2025. Traveling at an astonishing speed...

Nasa animation depicting the first 5,000 exoplanets to have been discovered, up to March 2022. On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence,...

The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136. These insights are...