SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

These six images help us understand more about outer space; a few of them were also part of a physics programme that helped ...

In a damning report for the thinktank Policy Exchange, retired Air Marshall Edward Stringer says increased defence spending ...

"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.