From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe

Sometime in the next year or so, if predictions are to believed, you’re going to be hearing a lot about a famous star. T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB for short, was the first well-observed nova, blossom

A look at some of the thousands of astronomical objects visible in Hubble’s historic photograph

A supermassive black hole has been discovered that formed when the Universe was just 3 per cent of its current age – around 500 million years after the Big Bang, or 13.3 billion years ago. Found in th

In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about ...