Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The universe is messy and complicated.

Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

Researchers investigate how nanometer-sized particles form and survive in the harsh, high-speed winds of nearing-death ...

The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born brilliant, live fast and die young. If that is ...

Six planets will appear close together after sunset in a rare planetary parade. Here is how and when to see this beautiful sky event.

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes ...

Explore the mysterious world of Rogue Planets in this mind-bending journey through the cosmos! What if planets drifted alone, untethered to stars? Uncover the secrets and potential life on these ...

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

The Chandra team has released a striking new composite image of the Cocoon Nebula, a reflection and emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. The image blends high-energy X-rays with optical and ...

Sci-fi TTRPGs such as Rogue Trader and Traveller have such an appeal for the intergalactic explorer. Instead of being heroic figures battling here and there, I love that these tend towards the more ...