The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.

Gas streams gush into the Milky Way 's center and pile up into thick clouds, but for some reason, those ingredients don't materialize into as many stars as astronomers would expect.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) astronomers have discovered an ...

Every now and then, I fall down a late-night rabbit hole reading space facts, and the 30 on this list are the ones that truly messed with my brain. Fair warning: you might need a minute to recover ...

Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. A disc of gas and dust surrounded by beams of light and concentric rings of dust. (SA / Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)) Hubble may no longer be the ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

Disney recently announced that the timeline for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland has expanded, bringing in classic characters like Darth Vader and Princess Leia at last. And there will be John ...

Lucasfilm announced this week that longtime president Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down, ending an era that reshaped the “Star Wars” franchise across films, series, and streaming projects. Dave Filoni ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...

When I go to the doctor, they measure how big I am. They use a scale to check my weight. They find my height with a measuring tape. But nobody can put a planet on a scale. Or wrap a measuring tape ...

– January 7, 2026 (London time) – One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit ...