In an extraordinary testament to the predictive power of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a star system has been ...

Scientists have finally gathered direct proof of how the universe forges its heaviest elements, a process that has remained a mystery for over half a century. A team from the Flatiron Institute in New ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. Their discovery opened a new window into the universe. To ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

The incredible new find was only possible thanks to the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Horseshoe. Credit: ESA/Hubble Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of an unimaginably large black ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today in Nature Astronomy. Researchers from Lancaster University joined a global ...