The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park. He previously served ...

A professor who created a crucial part of the Hubble Space Telescope has been ... Greenpeace, New Scientist, Aardman Animations and Spitting Image. The Duke of Edinburgh has also been made a ...