In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather famous for being, well, black because they can gobble down even light itself.

The French company Vaonis is one of the leading manufacturers of smart telescopes, and the Vespera Pro is their premium model. Our review copy came with three additional filters – a solar filter for ...

The most useful libraries don't just loan out books, magazines and films. In Skipton, the concept of the Library of Things means residents of the North Yorkshire market town can borrow handy everyday ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Kate “KT” Tunstall was “an unemployed busker,” 29 years old, when she went in to record her debut studio album, “Eye to the Telescope” in 2004. The Scottish singer and songwriter had spent her 20s ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions.

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...