Scientists discover a tiny star hidden inside a giant supernova

Get sucked into an astronomical mystery as we get in a spin with the universe’s heaviest objects.

SNR 0509-67.5. Calcium is shown in blue and ...

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When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, astronomers hoped it would revolutionise our understanding of the early stages of the Universe. And they were right. Almost a

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

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