Wherever the JWST looks in space, matter and energy are interacting in spectacular displays. The Webb reveals more detail in…
Mercury puts on one of its best apparitions for 2024 this month.
Plate tectonics, oceans, and continents might just be the secret ingredients for complex life on Earth. And if these geological…
The Gemini Observatory has unveiled a striking new image that shows star formation within the irregular galaxy NGC 4449. This…
To get to the Moon, NASA is building a Lunar Gateway in orbit to facilitate easier access to the Moon.…
Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe, second only to black holes. Like black holes, neutron stars…
One proposal offers a unique method to directly image ExoEarths, or rocky worlds around nearby stars.
One of the most fundamental questions astronomers ask about an object is "What's its distance?" For very faraway objects, they…
It turns out that you don't need the Men in Black to spot unidentified anomalous phenomena, which are also known…
If the Sun has a stellar neighbourhood, it can be usefully defined as a 20 parsec (65 light-years) sphere centred…