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'I was really amazed': On the edge of the Milky Way, a dwarf galaxy is being ripped in half by its big siblingA new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way's periphery, upending our understanding of our cosmic neighbor.
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The Milky Way returns: How to take breathtaking photos of our galaxy this summerLearn how to photograph the Milky Way in June with expert astrophotography tips on dark skies, camera settings, timing and composition.
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This 'crawling' robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photoA morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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'Geminid Symphony' and 'Galactic Gandalf': See the breathtaking views of our home galaxy from the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contestStunning views of the night sky abound in photographs worldwide submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest.
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2 vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Uranus and Neptune, new study hintsOur solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a more crowded picture of the early outer solar system than previously thought.
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Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions'NASA's Artemis III crew has been revealed. The astronauts will launch into low Earth orbit next year to test docking with commercial lunar landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
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Jupiter and Venus conjunction: See two bright planets at the same time this weekendA close conjunction of the two brightest planets in the night sky will take place over several evenings, with the best time to look being June 8-11.
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'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of rare black holes, theoretical study hintsBy taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black holes.
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Ultra-rare meteorite could be evidence of a lost planet that once orbited near Earth — Space photo of the weekA rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar system before being destroyed in a colossal collision, a new study suggests
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