In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

The first draft of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor’s science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf was written in 1983 in a holiday cottage in Wales donated by Doug’s father. This getaway, which ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause ...

The jet in question originates from a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, which has a mass 6.5 billion times that ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found that jets emitted from supermassive black holes can trigger explosions in nearby stars, a phenomenon previously ...

The reason we call dark matter dark isn't that it's some shadowy material. It's because dark matter doesn't interact with ...

A newly discovered Earth-size world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system may look like in billions of years.

All of our observations suggest that dark matter and light only have gravity in common. When dark matter is clustered around ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that stars appear to erupt along the path of a supermassive ...

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it ...