This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 4388, a member of the Virgo…
A neighbouring vista of stellar birth
Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week highlights another view of a distant stellar birthplace. Captured in a parallel…
A neighbouring vista of stellar birth
Today’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week highlights another view of a distant stellar birthplace. Captured in a parallel…
Unexpected atmosphere on lava planet is an exciting surprise
View larger. | Artist’s concept of scorching hot TOI-561 b and its sunlike star. New observations…
Gargantuan black hole may be a remnant from the dawn of the universe
Primordial black holes are hypothesised to have formed shortly after the big bang Shutterstock/Mohd. Afuza An…
Bright blue cosmic outbursts linked to black holes
In 2024, astronomers discovered the brightest Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) ever observed. LFBOTs are…
2026 Mars mission will set out to solve the mystery of its moons
The MMX probe will visit Mars’s moons JAXA The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons,…
Rare Saturn-sized rogue planet is first to have its mass measured
Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant source J. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000…
Calendar of space events 2026
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Are Uranus and Neptune rock giants and not ice giants?
View larger. | Artist’s depiction of the interior of Uranus as either an ice giant (left)…