These nine massive, mature galaxies contain many more relatively small stars than previously thought. Credit: Chloe Cheng. The James Webb Space Telescope has already found distant galaxies that seem ...
There are many meteor showers throughout the year. Here are the most prominent. For a beginner’s guide on meteors – what they are, where they come from, and how best to observe them – start with our ...
Total eclipse sequence over the waters of Lac Brome, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada, on April 8, 2024. Credit: Alan Dyer On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass between Earth ...
The vast, magnificent universe of stars, galaxies, and time itself has an expiration date—and it may come far sooner than once thought. A team of Dutch researchers from Radboud University has proposed ...
The Moon’s 580-mile-wide Orientale basin has three distinct ring structures. The image shows the basin’s gravitational signature (red indicates excess mass, blue indicates mass deficits), which ...
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover could touch down in the remains of a vast ancient water system on Mars, after new orbital mapping showed that clay-rich deposits at its landing site extend far beyond ...
The Red Planet in enhanced colour, pictured using data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael. Mars is celebrating New Year on 30 September. There are no fireworks, ...
The Artemis II astronauts captured this image of the Moon during their lunar flyby in April 2026. Credit: NASA. Humans have been deliberately crashing spacecraft into the Moon for more than 65 years, ...
Messier 13 is the finest globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere. Image: Adam Block. Messier 13 (NGC 6205) in Hercules is another of those truly celebrated deep-sky objects like the Orion Nebula, ...
The more astronomers learn about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the colder its birthplace appears to have been. New observations made with the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma in the Canary ...
Professor Michele Dougherty in the lab at Imperial College. Credit: Imperial College. His Majesty The King has approved Professor Michele Dougherty as the new Astronomer Royal. Professor Dougherty ...
Messier 95 is a very photogenic barred-spiral galaxy. Image: Patrick Gilliland. Early spring heralds the rise of the galaxies, when over the next three months or so the prime-time night sky is ...
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