The New Scientist's two-day discovery event featured stargazing, 'fascinating' talks and a tour of the UK's largest radio ...

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

Over billions of years the colder, denser areas would go on to nurture stars, galaxies and planets ... found the most distant black hole in the known universe and captured images of ancient ...

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

The universe just got a whole lot bigger—or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, ...

This means the new deposit could be the largest known natural stockpile of gold on the planet. News of the discovery sent ripples through the mining community and the wider global economy.

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...

At nearly three million years old, the exoplanet is about the age of a two-week-old baby in planet-years Olatunji ... 90 percent of the stars in the known universe and fuse hydrogen atoms to ...

In early November, the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory team did just that by employing the second-fastest supercomputer on the planet to execute the largest astrophysical ...