Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

In the North East we are lucky to have just about the darkest skies possible above our head in Northumberland National Park.

Discover how astronomers are using innovative methods to unravel the origins of these fascinating cosmic phenomena.

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the God hypothesis.’ ...

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

In addition to the annual parade of star pictures or constellations passing above our heads each night, there are always ...