What’s the secret to the most luminous galaxy’s incredible brightness?

The secret ingredient is stealing the material from at least three neighbouring galaxies

Water vapour has been spotted being ejected from a newly forming star

Using ALMA’s previously untested high-frequency capabilities, ALMA was able to detect make the detection of a rare cosmic molecule

This quasar could tell astronomers a lot about the state of the early universe and the first-ever galaxies

Observations of the universe’s oldest light, the Cosmic Microwave Background, has revealed the first stars formed 13.6 billion years ago

Australia’s new radio telescope has revealed the complexity of the Small Magellanic Cloud’s structure

The stellar formation area has a peculiar section of compounds

This signal detected in 1977 had gone unexplained until now, as scientists now confirm it’s from a comet

Radio observations of Cygnus A show an unusual object near the centre, not shown in prior radio observations.

We take a look at where SETI is in its search for extraterrestrial life