Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

What do you get if you combine carbon, helium, and oxygen? A promising new board game, according to Crafting the Cosmos ...

The early data already offers hints about the structure of the universe known as the “cosmic web”. Read more at ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky -- encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies -- to create what ...

When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties. You might think ...

colourful nebulas and shining stars. But the first release of astronomical data is "a new milestone for our dark universe detective," the European Space Agency's science director Carole Mundell ...