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 ...
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 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 ...
This crater on Mercury honours English novelist Charles Dickens. Among Dickens’ famous works is A Christmas Carol, the story of Mr. Scrooge and his employee Bob Cratchit. The image was captured by ...
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, ...
This artist’s impression shows a quasar: a brief period of life for a big, bright galaxy during which large quantities of material spiral into its central supermassive black hole, releasing energetic ...
An artist’s impression of the galaxy CRISTAL-02, with a huge plume of cold gas extending away from it. This plume is almost as long as the galaxy itself, which is a telltale sign that gas is being ...
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 ...
Schematic illustration of the formation and evolution of organic matter in lunar soil. Credit: HAO Jialong’s Group. The Moon may preserve a record of the raw ingredients that helped life begin on ...
NASA’s Fermi five-year view of the gamma-ray sky shows an excess of radiation coming from the centre of out Galaxy (centre of the image). Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Astronomers may not ...
NASA’s Space Launch System lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 April 2026, carrying the Artemis II crew (Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and CSA ...
An artist’s impression of a planet so close it to its star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI). An artificial intelligence tool developed at the ...
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