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Iridescent Running Chicken Nebula with glowing gases and stars

31 award-winning astronomy photos: From fiery horizons to whimsical auroras

By Annie Colbert

M101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

An amateur astronomer spotted a new supernova remarkably close to Earth

A total solar eclipse, a bright ring of sunlight around a dark moon on July 2, 2019.

April’s skies boast the full pink moon, Lyrid meteor shower, and a total solar eclipse

By Laura Baisas

Two people, silhouetted, looking up at a clear night sky.

Catch 5 planets (including Uranus) in an ultra-rare planetary alignment

By Briley Lewis

Milky Way galaxy stars in infrared by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Space Telescope

Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young

By Briley Lewis

The constellation Orion, centered on the three bright stars of a belt.

Why we turn stars into constellations

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

a panoramic view of the milky way galaxy

What would happen if the Milky Way died?

By Tatyana Woodall

Canada's CHIME telescope.

Two bizarre stars might have beamed a unique radio signal to Earth

a large sunflower-shaped shade that unfurled from a satellite in space

Exoplanet hunters want to block starlight with a giant orbiting shade

By Tatyana Woodall

Rogue black hole in Milky Way galaxy in an artist's rendition

‘Rogue black holes’ might be neither ‘rogue’ nor ‘black holes’

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Venus next to a crescent moon during 2022 planet alignment

Look up at the sky to see a parade of perfectly aligned planets

By Purbita Saha

The Gaia space observatory traveling the Milky Way in an artist's rendition

See the stars from the Milky Way mapped as a dazzling rainbow

By Purbita Saha

Artist’s impression of a micronova (close up)

Astronomers just caught a ‘micronova’—a small but mighty star explosion

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has captured the farthest star yet.

Space Telescope

Hubble spies the most distant star ever found

The star, called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, imaged with a red filter to optimize visual contrast.

Space Telescope

A fully aligned James Webb Space Telescope captures a glorious image of a star

Three galaxies forming a gassy swirl in a Hubble Space Telescope image

Space Telescope

See Hubble’s captures of real-life star wars

By Purbita Saha

Merging white dwarf stars can create a new kind of star.

Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns

By Leto Sapunar

Ursa Major star shown 18 times in first James Webb Space Telescope composite image

Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope showed us its first star

By Maggie Galloway

Amorphous blob bubble with purple bright clusters near the edges and a bright spot in the middle as a 3D rendering

Astronomers just mapped the ‘bubble’ that envelopes our planet

By Tatyana Woodall

A shooting star in a purple, blue, and yellow night sky over water

Real shooting stars look a lot different than you’d expect

By Idan Ginsburg / The Conversation

The mysterious burst AT2018cow

Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast

By Leto Sapunar

Scientists just spotted a massive storm from a sun-like star

Scientists just spotted a massive storm from a sun-like star

By Kate Baggaley

A black hole meets a white dwarf star

Watch a black hole devour simulated stars

By Margo Milanowski

Hubble Space Telescope capture of distant galaxies Arp 86 and NGC 7753

Space Telescope

These two galaxies are locked in a cosmic battle

By Margo Milanowski

A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offers a glimpse of Earth’s future

A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offers a glimpse of Earth’s future

By Leto Sapunar

These strange radio signals might not be coming from stars

By Leto Sapunar

art illustration of the sun

What happens when the sun burns out?

An illustration of a blue, circular star with space matter circling around it in an accretion disk, plus beams of light shooting vertically out of the star.

This could be a brand new type of supernova

By Leto Sapunar

An illustration of a brown dwarf, a celestial body that is not quite planet, not quite star.

These 5 mysterious space objects straddle the line between planets and stars

By Charlie Wood

Flickering light could help astronomers weigh supermassive black holes

Flickering light could help astronomers weigh supermassive black holes

By Charlie Wood

a skyscraper against a green background with rays of light beaming off of it onto the ground

Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays

By Popular Science Team

milky-way-from-colorado

This Colorado community fought to save its darkness—and all that relies on it to thrive

By Sarah Scoles

Night sky and stars above the Cherry Springs National Park.

The world needs dark skies more than ever. Here’s why.

a man and woman sit close to each other and share a plate of pancakes

Your favorite brunch foods are thousands of years old

By Popular Science Team

Map of 25,000 supermassive black holes

Check out the most extensive map of black holes ever

By Erin Fennessy

Night sky photography

Cold weather is the best time to look at—and photograph—the night sky

By Stan Horaczek

Interacting galaxies seen among stars through a telescope

Behold six galactic collisions, masterfully captured by Hubble

By Jessica Boddy

A reconstruction of the sunspot captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on January 28th, 2020. The original image was taken in the wavelength of 530 nanometers - in the greenish-yellow part of the visible spectrum–. Researchers modified it to show up red and orange to the naked eye

The best space stories of 2020

By Charlie Wood

The Kepler supernova was spotted in 1604. Four centuries later, material from the explosion is still expanding outward at more than 20 million miles per hour.

Stars are dying all across the galaxy—why don’t we see them?

By Charlie Wood

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon

By Charlie Wood

a panoramic of the milky way

Meet the disk-shaped halo of hot gas you currently live in

By Kate Baggaley

This illustration depicts a star (in the foreground) experiencing spaghettification as it's sucked in by a supermassive black hole (in the background) during a 'tidal disruption event'.

Astronomers caught a black hole slurping up a star like spaghetti

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have imaged GW Orionis, a triple star system with a peculiar inner region. Unlike the flat planet-forming discs we see around many stars, GW Orionis features a warped disc, deformed by the movements of the three stars at its centre.

A strange dusty disk could hide a planet betwixt three stars

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Artist’s impression of the thin stream of stars torn from the Phoenix globular cluster, wrapping around the Milky Way (left). Astronomers targeted bright red giant stars (artist’s impression, right) to measure the chemical composition of the disrupted Phoenix globular cluster.

A local stellar graveyard could reveal our galaxy’s beginnings

An illustration of a lopsided binary star system.

A lopsided pair of dead stars could reveal some of the universe’s secrets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

NGC 2275, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Space Telescope

Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory

By Candice Wang

An illustration of what an Earthlike exoplanet might look like.

There should be billions of Earths out there. Why can’t we find them?

By Charlie Wood

These anaglyph images can be viewed with red-blue stereo glasses (or 3D glasses) to reveal the stars' distance from their backgrounds. On the left is Proxima Centauri and on the right is Wolf 359.

NASA’s New Horizons is so far away, it’s seeing stars from new angles

By Candice Wang

An artists interpretation of a telescope receiving radio bursts from deep space.

Astronomers spot repeating radio burst patterns from deep space

By Charlie Wood

Particle Physics

Why are big neutron stars like Tootsie Pops?

By Charlie Wood

This image shows the disc around the young AB Aurigae star, where ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has spotted signs of planet birth.

This ominous image shows the birth of a planet

By Candice Wang

Two starts orbiting a black hole, as portrayed by an illustrator

Astronomers just found the closest black hole to Earth

By Charlie Wood

the sun emitting some solar flares

Scientists say the sun is lazy and boring

By Rachel Feltman

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.

Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

By Charlie Wood

Starlink satellites streak across telescope images of the stars.

Elon Musk insists his satellite swarm won’t interfere with science. This model disagrees.

By Charlie Wood

Artist's interpretation of the teardrop star and its partner.

First of its kind ‘teardrop’ star pulses with its own rhythm

By Charlie Wood

artists impression of a polluted white dwarf star

Asteroids go to pieces when their host star dies

By Charlie Wood

Two stars colliding and making a colorful cloud of gas

Astronomers caught a star-on-star smack down

By Charlie Wood

A closeup image of the sun's surface

These close-up photos of the sun could help us forecast space weather

By Charlie Wood

solar orbiter illustration in front of the sun

This new solar orbiter will peek at some of the sun’s most secretive spots

By Charlie Wood

galaxy illustration of weird orbiting objects

There’s a bizarre group of shapeshifting objects at the center of the Milky Way

By Charlie Wood

Researchers trace galactic history in ancient grains of alien sand

By Charlie Wood

illustration of bubbles of clear space around stars

Young galaxies transformed the early universe by blowing bubbles

By Charlie Wood

artist's interpretation of the milky way with radcliffe wave

The biggest gaseous structure in our galaxy is filled with baby star factories

By Charlie Wood