Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

Astronomers have identified Cloud 9, a nearby dark matter halo filled with gas but no stars. The discovery supports key predictions about how galaxies form and why some never do.

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Don Chahbazpour of National Grid explains how biogas and renewable natural gas cut methane, decarbonise gas networks and help ...

An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn't supposed to have: a ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a "failed galaxy," a massive, starless ...

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Scientists are tracing ancient helium trapped beneath South Africa’s gold fields, revealing how rare gas survives for ...