“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been anticipating the chance to compare my predictions to new data for four years, ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

During the course of a 13-second exposure, the International Space Station makes a trail of light in the sky as the station ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.

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

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

The LEGO Milky Way Galaxy set #31212 is currently $199.99 elsewhere (even during Prime Day), but Insiders members can get it ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.