July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

Two astronomy facts about July may go against your impressions. First, the days are getting shorter, albeit slowly for now. As July begins, we have lost four minutes from the ...

The shortlist for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 features 30 photographs selected from more than 5,800 global ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Dr Wang’s research focuses on the ‘Local Group’ (a pair of dark matter halo that includes our Milky Way and its neighbour Andromeda) and how it is linked to the larger cosmic web, a vast network of ...