Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

NASA’s Hubble captures NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy in Virgo with intense star formation and glowing gas clouds.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which ...

New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...