An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

When an object from outside our star system zooms through our neighborhood in the solar system, it provides a rare ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern constellations and even nearby galaxies. With the help of telescopes and large cameras, ...

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike ...