In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured the closest-ever images of the Sun, taken just 3.8 million miles from its surface. The jaw-dropping photos reveal intricate details of the solar wind—streams of ...

Nasa's Parker Solar Probe started its closest approach to the Sun on December 24, getting as close as 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Perfect for families and kids — the Celestron Powerseeker 50AZ allows you to enjoy views of the night sky without breaking ...

The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

The 'largest astronomical movie of all time' will provide a dataset that will transform how the cosmos is observed, revealing ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

It could be more than seven billion years old, according to University of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins - who is discussing his findings at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy ...

Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the ...