A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416 taken with the James Webb and Hubble space ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

On the evening of 31 January, the Bangladesh Astronomical Association, with support from Kalabagan Krira Chakra, hosted a Jupiter and Moon Observation Camp ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569. Results of the observational campaign, published December 22 on the arXiv ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

Across the billions of stars and galaxies in the universe, Earth remains the only known planet to host life. Yet, the search for other potentially habitable worlds drives scientists to develop ...

What we know so far: Stars, like all living organisms, age according to predictable physical laws – or so astronomers once thought. Yet scattered throughout the Milky Way's oldest star clusters are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very difficult to observe ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Apai, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched ...