From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning the Milky Way inside out, exposing the buried engines that actually drive our galaxy’s star production. By peering through dust, resolving crowded stellar ...

Pull-apart monkey bread is delicious, but you can upgrade it by mixing in some ingredients. Everything from bourbon sauce to ...

Hubble’s latest image peers inside N159, a vast stellar nursery nearby, revealing how cold hydrogen clouds, newborn stars, and powerful stellar forces quietly shape one of our closest galaxies.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 4388, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster.ESA/Hubble & ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

The central mystery posed by 3I/ATLAS is not merely about whether we are alone, but about the sheer scale of the potential ...

January for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Quadrantid meteor shower, as Greg Redfern highlights in January’s ...

One may easily regard oneself as no more than a speck compared to the universe. Thirteen and eight-tenths billion years after ...

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched in 2025 alongside NASA’s SPHEREx space ...