The Latest Breaking News from Universe

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…

The supermassive black hole contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back over 13 billion years

New results show fully formed galaxies in the early Universe that could rewrite what we know about galaxies and black holes.

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

If life is common in our Universe, and we have every reason to suspect it is, why do we not see evidence of it everywhere? Black holes may hold an answer.

Scientists at CERN are making one of the most explosive substances known to humans. Unravelling its secrets could help us understand how the Universe exists.

The work Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is meant to echo road signs from throughout the world as well as places in the universe.

On the largest scales, the Universe is ordered into a web-like pattern: galaxies are pulled together into clusters, which are connected by filaments and separated by voids. These clusters and filaments contain dark matter, as well as regular matter like gas and galaxies.