NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing Universe.

Messier’s designations are still used today, and NASA just released new images of Messier Object 82, the Cigar Galaxy, ...

JWST and radio interferometry caught six massive galaxies colliding 12 billion years ago, while a young supermassive black ...

The Dwarf Mini makes it as easy and intuitive as possible to start photographing the deep sky. It packs quite a punch ...

An observatory in Chile is taking a timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the ...

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens ...

There's an urgent mission to save NASA's Swift Observatory, which is falling back into the Earth's atmosphere and at risk of ...

This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy's centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 ...

Exoplanet atmospheres have become prime targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can't be directly imaged yet, so astronomers must get ...

An intense demolition derby of at least six galaxies smashing into one another has been found lurking in the early universe ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

Rubin Observatory LSST launched June 30, 2026, unleashing a nightly 7-million-alert sky survey powered by SLAC’s 60-second ...