The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a remarkable new view of the Egg Nebula, the closest known pre-planetary nebula to Earth. The image captures a Sun-like star casting off its outer layers, ...

With some of the world’s clearest skies, the Elqui Valley on the edge of the Atacama Desert offers an unparalleled lens into ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Work by a University of Exeter legal expert will help to bring clarity to the laws around armed conflict in space and ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

Britons in the UK were not able to enjoy the 'Ring of Fire'. As for any eclipse, experts have urged people not to look at the phenomenon with the naked eye. According to experts, staring directly at ...

Captured in December 2025, the newly released photo (it came out on Feb. 11) reveals how construction is progressing on the ELT's 80-meter-tall (260-foot) protective dome, which will one day host a 39 ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

The image shared by NASA shows a dense, opaque cloud which is concealing the star. It resembles a 'yolk' within a dark 'egg white'. The Hubble Space Telescope's ability to capture this image ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...