It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

In the early Universe, long before they should have had time to grow, astronomers have found what they're calling 'red ...

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

A team of astrophysicists says they may have found evidence for "cosmic strings", long-hypothesized "cracks" in the universe ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed.

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...

Our ancestors had no problem with the idea that the sun would rise and set every day, providing light and warmth, forever.

One of the greatest astronomer's, who changed our entire understanding of the universe, was born 135 years ago today ...