It's a great time to see the Cygnus constellation – here's how

You can currently see Cygnus and its lovely stars, including stunning double star Albireo, from almost…

Reusable rocket built by students is about to launch to space

The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will attempt to launch…

The earliest black holes seen by JWST appear to be unusually massive

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest supermassive black holes from the early universe are…

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all…

How to spot green comet Nishimura in the skies this week

Comet Nishimura, which was discovered just a month ago, is about to make its closest approach…

The universe’s evolution seems to be slowing and we don’t know why

The development of cosmic structure – the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that…

Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon

The success of the Indian Space Research Organisation mission to the moon places India as a…

Japan launches moon lander and X-ray space telescope on same rocket

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe and XRISM X-ray space telescope blasted off from…

Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly

When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the…

Never-before-seen space explosion is incredibly bright but fades fast

An explosion that was billions of times brighter than the sun but faded within a month…