Our weird universe

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

Did you know? The nearest black hole is ...

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

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

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,

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack