Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French ...

A star like the Sun lives modestly for billions of years, converting the nuclear fuel in its core into energy that ultimately escapes as light and heat. But the most spectacular phase of a Sun-like ...

It was a good night for China, as in addition to the overall winner there were six other prize winners, including Yurui Gong ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals stunning new details of Planetary Nebula NGC 1514, also known as the Crystal Ball ...

Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white dwarf WD 1647+375 have discovered the biggest quantity of nitrogen ever seen ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

M82 has been a popular target for astronomers and their telescopes, due to its high activity. Hubble has observed it many ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

The unique patterns and eye color combinations found in dogs with heterochromia can look reminiscent of gemstones. If you ...