Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

“An adopted Scot, a Leither, and now an FRSE. What riches.” ...

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 ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

This groundbreaking scientific visualization takes viewers on an immersive journey inside the Pillars of Creation, one of the ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant ...

The universe can be a beautiful but violent place. A new image from the Webb space telescope captures an epic battle between two stars as they launch jets of material toward one another ...

The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. PUNCH is a constellation of four small suitcase-size spacecraft that will spend the next two ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".