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This striking image from the science camera on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is the closest look we have had to date. It shows the object spewing dust and gas as it continues on its path.

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real - and astrophysicists have now spotted the brightest and most distant one yet.

For the first time, a young, Sun-like star has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers wonder why there aren't more stars.

A rare total lunar eclipse on Tuesday night resulted in a spectacular blood moon, captured by Josh Aoraki from the Te Whatu Stardome in Auckland ...

A rare total lunar eclipse resulted in a spectacular blood moon, seen first in Western Australia, then in parts of Asia, Europe and across North America ...

Astronomers have just released a stunning new image of the Cat's Eye Nebula, combining two distinct views: one from NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope, which provides incredibly sharp details of the nebula, and another from the Euclid telescope, ...

Trawling through academic archives can be an absolute drag: I've spent weeks up to my neck in old books, microfiche, loose paperwork, and scanned documents looking for a useful tidbit but coming up with bupkis. But every now and then, the digging ...

NASA's pushed-back Moon landing is making it clearer than ever that its stumbling in its race to the Moon with China.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant "jellyfish galaxy" ever seen -- a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds through a dense galaxy cluster. The galaxy ...