Using various ground-based and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a recently discovered fast ...

F rom the very first images, JWST showed that it was going to be a revolutionary instrument, and yet it continues to surprise ...

Hints that dark matter might be destroying itself have flickered through astronomical data for more than a decade, but a new ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, ...

A new study led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals in an unusual gamma-ray burst (GRB) event. The findings are ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio is worried about the state of the US economy. He's concerned about the effects of the Fed's shift toward easier monetary policy. Dalio believes one last stock market rally ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Walk along the Grand Union Canal from Uxbridge in west London and you will soon stumble across one of the world ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope has revealed four spiralling dust shells around a rare triple-star system named after the "God of Chaos ...