Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. In a moment long-awaited by astronomers, the Vera C. Rubin ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

In a hangar outside Zurich, a veteran of low Earth orbit lay under a kind of medical scanner no spacecraft was ever designed for. The patient was the European Retrievable Carrier mission, or EURECA, a ...

JWST observations of galaxy cluster MACS J1149 show gravitational lensing used by CANUCS to study distant low-mass galaxies across a wide range of cosmic time.

Update June 23, 2025, 11:40 A.M. CDT: Additional images and videos showing our dynamic universe have now been released! What do photos from the largest digital camera ever built look like? Now we know ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo Cluster, a massive collection of galaxies in the Virgo constellation, was ...

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...

This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space. The ...