Galaxy
The Life and Times of a Dark Nebula Named 'Coalsack'
A black smudge in the sky that will soon give birth to stars.
Astronomers Capture the Birth of the Universe’s First ‘Normal’ Galaxies
“For the first time we are seeing early galaxies not merely as tiny blobs, but as objects with internal structure!”
Speaking to an Astrophysicist Who Just Discovered a Five-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
Yes, we asked her about aliens.
A Cosmic ‘Dinosaur Egg’ Is Hatching Between Colliding Galaxies
For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a globular star cluster in its prenatal phase.
Blast Off into a Glorious Star Cluster to Celebrate Hubble's 25th Anniversary
NASA and ESA pay tribute to a quarter century of Hubble with splendid images of the Westerlund 2 star cluster.
Light Pollution Is No Match for the Milky Way in These Stunning Timelapses
LA filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic ask: What would a sky without stars look like?
Sparks Fly in an Animated Tribute to Imagination
'One Bright Dot' is what happened when Clément Morin started animating a film without knowing how it would end.
Semiconductor's New Installation Is a Portal into the Cosmos
'Catching the Light' at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore features projected timelapses of raw deep space data.
Strangers on the Internet Are Listening to People's Phone Voice Commands
Hundreds of voice clips are easily found on a crowdsource data analysis website.
Our Galaxy May Be Littered With Dying Earths
First contact could put us face to face with the apocalypse.
Eyeball Worlds: The Most Common Habitable Planets May Be Apocalyptic Hellholes
"Those aren't mountains... it's a wave."