At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Abu Dhabi holds a distinct brilliance. It is a city shaped by women who build at scale—directors, innovators, policy shapers, and institutional leaders; women accustomed to responsibility, complexity, ...

Astronomers have operated under the assumption for 50 years that a colossal black hole lurks at the heart of our galaxy, but a new space theory now poses a bold challenge. Research published in ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an unusual after-effect of a planetary system’s evolution. When this star, ...

Comprised of more than 400 islands and nearly 9,000 square miles of mainland, Belize is home to rain forests, jungles, ...

Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...

The award, administered by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), is presented annually to an economic historian whose work has made a major contribution to the discipline.

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...

A conference celebrating James Lovelock, the scientist who formulated the Gaia hypothesis, saw researchers questioning the future of our living planet Electricity generation from coal power stations ...