There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by millions who would ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

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

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

A Pakistan-born German astrobiologist has identified life-supporting organic molecules beneath the icy crust of Enceladus, ...

Explore the universe with multi-messenger astronomy, combining light, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays for a ...

With such extraordinary potential for our international standing in astronomy, the cost of ESO membership seems like a ...

Astronomers have recently made an extraordinary discovery that brings a new layer of complexity to our understanding of the universe: the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). These strange and massive rings of ...

The footage, captured by Pettit during a recent visit to the International Space Station (ISS), clearly shows a number of Starlink satellites in a long line (the so-called train) as the orbital ...