3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1054+ words) A beginner's guide to the Magellanic Clouds and their impending collision with our own Galaxy To stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere, they’ve been familiar naked-eye objects since time immemorial. So what exactly ARE the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds – or…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (585+ words) America's history can be told through the story of its astronomy Why does the American flag contain stars? Why...argues the answers lie in what he calls ‘political astronomy’. His book, The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1892+ words) Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is one of the biggest stories in space science in recent years. From the moment of its discovery in July…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) Scientists have discovered the fastest known star in our Galaxy, named S301, which skims close to our central supermassive black hole Astronomers have found the fastest known star in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way. The star, named S301, was discovered hurtling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (359+ words) How to see the lunar occultation of the Beehive Cluster, M44 in September 2026 The Moon will occult the northern part of the Beehive Cluster, M44, in the constellation of Cancer this month. Although perhaps rather than a lunar occultation, this should be…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1004+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope used gravitational lensing to make an incredible discovery in the distant Universe The sheer mass of enormous cosmic objects warps spacetime and can even magnify light from distant objects, enabling astronomers to see them more…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (962+ words) Astronomers have found an enormous proto-supercluster 5,000 times bigger than our Galaxy Astronomers have peered back into the early Universe to a time shortly after the Big Bang and discovered an enormous, gargantuan cosmic structure taking shape. Located in a region…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (502+ words) Fassnacht, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, a co-author on the study published in Nature Astronomy. "Finding low-mass objects such as this...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (640+ words) Is human spaceflight a waste of money and resources? In his book Lunacy, philosopher Ben Bramble considers 10 ‘false’ pledges of the new Space Age – this era of Blue Origin, SpaceX and private entities aspiring to see millions of humans not…...

4+ day, 37+ min ago   (338+ words) The European Space Agency released a video showing BepiColombo's view as it travelled across the Solar System After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner…...