Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT ...

The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Horse-head Nebula. It is the sharpest infrared imagery to date. The iconic nebula is about 1300 light-years away. Credit: ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from ESA's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Planetary nebulae, formed when red giant stars exhaust their fuel, can sometimes be spectacular (see the Hourglass Nebula) ...

A new observatory in South Wairarapa lets visitors watch exploding stars far away - and take the photos home with them. The Cretney Observatory, which opened Saturday 13 September, boasts a powerful ...

Gemini Nano Banana model has been dominating the space on social media with users recreating their images into different styles thanks to the new model from Google. The AI modle is capable of making ...

On September 16, Deep Blue Aerospace announced that it recently achieved a complete success in the first full engine ignition test of its reusable 130-ton liquid oxygen kerosene engine, Thunder RS.

Data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has enabled scientists to create the most precise three-dimensional map of star formation regions in the Milky Way. This map will help ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...