Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads ... poking out of a ball of sticky tack (the galaxy). Astronomers hypothesise that the ...

First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has created a 2.5-billion-pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbour ...