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 ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

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

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

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

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

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

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.