- Lagoon Nebula (M8) is an emission nebula in Sagittarius.

By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of ...

Star Trek wasn't truly a "franchise" until Deep Space Nine debuted to much controversy among fans, but it is a sci-fi ...

Stop me if you've heard this before: in the distant future, a ragtag group of pilots will wage war against an oppressive empire that reigns over the stars. At first glance, this could describe any ...

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On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...

As humans travel farther and farther from our terrestrial home, scientists need to devise ways to resupply missions in the inhospitable environment of space. One way could be to leverage the ...