Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

A line of glowing lights streaking silently across the night sky left many residents across the Southeast pausing in awe — and confusion.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The easiest way to time travel is more simple than you realise - and it doesn't involve any fancy equipment, say scientists.

Whether you fly abroad or take a staycation in Northumberland, here's your complete travel guide to the best places catch the Northern Lights from Newcastle and the North East ...

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...