The end of Ramadan is near, and with that, Muslims across the UK will be looking for the crescent moon that marks the start ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

Using a telescope at Kitt Peak, scientists have produced the largest 3D map of the universe ever made and uncovered ...

Two different teams of astronomers detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, hinting at how these galaxies formed in ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions ...

It’s stargazing turnover time! Nighttimes are shrinking, and you’re forced to wait longer into the evening to begin your ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.

In very early February, the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth had a special visitor. That visit ...

ESA’s Gaia mission ends after 12 years, having mapped 2 billion stars and reshaped astronomy. Its data will fuel discoveries ...

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...