Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is only three years into operations, yet it keeps slipping the cosmic rug out from under ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

Shwartz explains how astrophotography images get their mesmerizing colors, and shares a step-by-step guide to take a picture of our own galaxy using any camera—even analog film—and a tripod. The post ...

To figure out how future launches could affect the ozone layer, we first built a database of ozone-depleting chemicals emitted by rockets currently ... Featuring an image of the Milky Way captured in ...