NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the universe. They govern how small particles – the building blocks of planets, ...

A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map ...

I stuck to my "no telescope" rule for years, right up until a trip to New Brunswick's dark-sky corridor a few years ago, when ...

The object, called 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System.

Astronomers swept millions of candidates and found no alien signals from K2-18b, setting the first power limit on any ...

A radio telescope in Australia has built the largest magnetic map of the universe yet, a colorful image five times larger ...

A star caught feeding on its companion has finally revealed the source of some of the galaxy’s most mysterious repeating ...

NASA’s Roman Telescope could reveal 100,000 hidden worlds and rewrite what we know about planets across the Milky Way. NASA’s ...

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

Exoplanet magnetic fields were measured for the first time using ultra-hot Jupiter wind speeds in a June 2026 Nature ...