A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

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

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...

In the summer of 2022, less than a full month after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had begun to produce its first ...

In this excerpt from his new book, John Gertz argues it’s time to ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for ...

We whisked some of Australia’s biggest names in health and wellness to Byron’s hinterland hideaway Sun Ranch, inviting these ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, scientists have created the most precise three-dimensional map of star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. This map will ...