An illustration of a nova exploding after a white dwarf has stripped away too much material from its more massive stellar partner. (Image credit: Gemini International Observatory Garlick, M. Zamani) Groundbreaking observations of a repeating explosion in space known as…
A sunset with Earth and Venus on the horizon, photographed by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spacecraft on the Moon. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) What is it: Moon sunset, part of the first in a series of high-resolution lunar sunset images.…
A bright image of a newly identified candidate black hole light echo that could be one of the largest ever detected. (Image credit: Julian Shapiro, Chilescope T1) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Even after a black hole at the center of a…
The new galaxy, Andromeda XXXV, is visible inside the white ellipse. (Image credit: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal Investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias)) Astronomers have found a cluster of small galaxies located about 3 million light-years from Earth, including the tiniest…
This is the clearest image yet of the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation (half-sky image on the left, close-up on the right). The orange and blue colours reflect the different levels of…
Are you an expert on all aspects of extraterrestrial life, or are you better off sticking to sci-fi aliens? (Image credit: honglouwawa/Getty Images) Is there someone out there? Are we really alone in this universe, or are aliens just patiently…
A giant wheel surrounded by its neighbors. (Photo credit: Weichen Wang et al. (2025), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Deep observations using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an incredibly large galaxy that existed in the early universe. This cosmic…
This image shows some of the many galaxies of varying shapes captured by the Euclid telescope during its first deep-field observations. (Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Quillandre) The European Space Agency (ESA) has…
British company Pulsar Fusion has unveiled its ambitious plans to build a fleet of innovative nuclear fusion rockets that could dramatically reduce travel times within the solar system. (Image credit: Pulsar Fusion) The British start-up has made waves in the…
JADES-GS-z14-0 appears as a tiny dot in the constellation Fornax. (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Carniani et al. Schowes et al./JWST: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phil Cargile (CfA)) Astronomers have…
This image taken on March 8 shows light from the waning Venus being refracted into a bright rainbow by Earth’s atmosphere. (Photo by Douglas Kostick) New images have revealed that the ‘planet of love’ Venus looks very different as it…
A lunar sunset captured by the Blue Ghost spacecraft during its final moments. (Photo credit: Firefly Aerospace) NASA has released the first-ever high-quality photographs of a lunar sunset, marking the end of the first mission of the Blue Ghost lunar…