Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on display, Nigel Henbest writes ...

Levitating sensors are moving from science-fiction imagery to practical laboratory tools, promising a new generation of ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...