The astrophysicist James Binney from the University of Oxford has won the 2023 Isaac Newton...

IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...

The most distant galactic magnetic field ever observed has been reported by an international team...

The values of the fundamental physical constants – seemingly fine-tuned for the emergence of nuclear matter and ultimately life – might...

IntroductionYears before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in...

The NIRSpec instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that a far...

Are spaceports the missing link needed to catalyse the UK space industry, or are they a can of worms best left...

IntroductionNearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms to coalesce, making space...

For the first time, spiral arms of gas and dust have been seen within a disc swirling around a massive protostar,...

For the first time, spiral arms of gas and dust have been seen within a disc swirling around a massive protostar,...

A controversial new theory suggests that supermassive black holes that lurk at the heart of most large galaxies could be the...

IntroductionA group of astronomers poring over data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has glimpsed light from a rare isotope of helium in...