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Astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope project didn't know if their attempt to photograph a black hole would pay off, Luciano Rezzolla tells New Scientist Live

A billion billion attoseconds just passed while you read this. Why is such a tiny timeframe crucial to this year's Nobel physics prize winners?

The James Webb Space Telescope is looking ever further back in the universe's history and the unexpected behaviour it is spotting hints that the standard model of cosmology may need tweaking, astrophysicist Richard Ellis...

The smallest planet in our solar system is getting smaller as heat escapes its core and fresh cracks open on its surface, new research finds.

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered a horseshoe and bridle that could be from the Viking Age.

This frilly slug lives in the mangroves of southeastern Asia and Australia, lounging in shallow pools of water and scraping up algae from which it gains the ability to photosynthesize.

Youngsters often hunker down to hide from predators, and spots can provide excellent camouflage.

Cosmologists in the 1960s thought they had the end of the universe worked out - then an unknown PhD student called Beatrice Hill Tinsley upended it all