A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

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

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