A research project by the University of Leeds and University of Cambridge is being used to teach Moonsighting to 38 Muslim ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is finding unexpectedly many "dead" galaxies in the early universe where no stars are forming.

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

The University of Leeds has been part of a pioneering project teaching the Muslim practise of moonsighting. Moonsighters ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

The first observation using the Airy Transit Circle telescope, a device that functioned for over a hundred years, was taken ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

A massive galaxy that mysteriously stopped forming stars more than 12 billion years ago has stunned scientists. A new study ...

Observations of Pablo’s Galaxy show repeated black hole heating restricted gas inflow, limiting new star formation in the early universe, based on Webb and ALMA data.

Steward Observatory’s long running Public Lecture series aims to make the complex field of Astronomy accessible to everyone.

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...