In the vastness of space lies an incredible truth: we are made of stardust. This video tells the awe-inspiring story of how ...

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. The Crab Nebula ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus and Neptune stand near brighter beacons: Neptune and Saturn are two ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

This detailed image of a famous supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus is the hauntingly beautiful swan song for a massive star.

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark ...

The smoke from the Falcon 9 rocket creates a nebula-like ring around the rocket as it shoots into the night sky. (Image credit: SpaceX) Why is it amazing?

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the International Space Station.

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory as a taster of more to come.

8 night sky events to see in July, from a ‘buck moon‘ to a rare view of Pluto Get your binoculars ready for dark skies, elusive planets, and a sky show spanning the entire month.