The Latest Breaking News from Universe

A new version of the LISA observatory could catch gravitational waves with far more detail and expand our knowledge of the Universe.

AT2021lwx is outshining and outlasting supernovas by a big margin.

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, potentially very much older than that.

Until now, no one knew for sure what quasars — among the most massive explosions in the universe — really were

A new study gives insight about the ring of hot churning material destined to plummet into a supermassive black hole, and its connection to a high-speed jet.

These celestial objects were first discovered 60 years ago.

Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.

A new catalog allows astronomers to trace the evolution of a star's death.

Astronomers have spotted four of the oldest galaxies ever discovered which are believed to date back to the earliest days of the known universe, created after just 300million years

Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves ever-larger and more complex facilities that detect things like gravitational waves and different forms of electromagnetic radiation – the spectrum of energy that includes visible light and…

Scientists from Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever detected in the universe, and it’s 32.7 billion times bigger than the Sun.