Sharpest map ever made of a galaxy’s dark matter

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

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

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

New Horizons was the first mission sent to explore Pluto, conducting a fly-by in July 2015. It was then redirected for a close pass of a much smaller Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth, in January 2019. Tod

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

Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,