Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a marvelous time when many other (though less radiant) planets and ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Qian, W. (2025) Expanding Force in Astronomy and Updraft Force in Meteorology. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 267-285. doi: ...

The face of this cosmic owl is created by a bubble of gas flowing out from an ageing star in UrsaMajor. Due to their round shape, such nebulae are know as planetary nebula - though in reality they ...

There are many strange and mysterious locations in the universe that test our knowledge of physics and space. These places are absolutely amazing, with everything from strange planets to extreme ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...