An international team including UCL researchers have received €3 million from the European Union to complete a conceptual ...

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could ...

Physicists find themselves wishing upon a star (to explode) to solve one of the most frustrating questions in science.

WOH G64 caught the eye of scientists in 2005 and 2007, when they began using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

An astrophysicist and his team have made history by capturing the first-ever close-up image of a star in another galaxy.

This record-breaking celestial body, named J0529-4351, was identified using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Quasars are the luminous cores of distant galaxies, ...

A powerful telescope has observed a massive galaxy collision caused by one galaxy traveling at 2 million mph (3.2 million ...

Astronomers have clocked a cosmic collision at 3.2 million km/h (2 million mph). A new instrument has spotted a galaxy ...

For the past two months, a small asteroid named 2024 PT5 has been keeping Earth company, acting as a "mini-moon." Now, it's ...

Astronomers have captured the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, taken during a dramatic moment near the end ...

Scientists have obtained an unprecedented image of WOH G64, a massive red supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as ...