This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Scientists have long believed that our nearest cosmic neighbour holds clues to the history of the entire solar system. Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Two cutting-edge telescopes have been used to take a look at the furthest reaches of the universe and in doing so have discovered a cosmic collision of epic proportions. When the universe was just 10 ...

The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...