Astronomy

The Pillars of Creation, a series of elongated clouds teeming with star formation, have intrigued researchers and wowed the public

Welcome to the Astronomy.com roundtable where our editors help explain (and sometimes debate) hot topics. This week, Astronomy’s Dave Eicher,

Within the Serpens Nebula, found 1,300 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the jets of

The space environment is harsh and full of extreme radiation. Scientists designing spacecraft and satellites need materials that can withstand these

When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory comes online, perhaps at full bore in 2025, this powerful and unique survey telescope,

N Sergey Trudolyubov from Los Alamos, New Mexico NGC 3628 — sometimes called the Hamburger Galaxy — is perhaps best

This week, Dave’s breaking down another pair of deep-sky objects that are situated nicely in the evening sky right now:

Could Psyche be the core of the planetesimal body that struck Earth and resulted in the formation of the Moon?

Several compact clusters of stars that formed near the Big Bang could provide a key insight into a little-understood time

The total solar eclipse set to occur August 12, 2045, will dazzle everyone who views it. And with a maximum