An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges traditional models and supports the idea that planets may form one by one in ...

Supermassive black holes, often considered the universe's most extreme objects, are now seen as cosmic predators that can slow star growth in galaxies millions of light-years ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense object with gravity so ​strong not ...

The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), located 27 million light-years away, was observed above Al-Sahla near Rafha, appearing close to ...

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...