Sky-high tobacco prices in Australia have created a lucrative black market, analysts say, sparking a violent "tobacco war" ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

A scheme to encourage nature conservation closes unexpectedly, leaving many farmers short of money ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

Gertrudis Pineda tells the BBC she has no information about her son who was sent by the US to a prison in El Salvador.