Seems like right now is the best and craziest time to get into astronomy and planetary exploration.

Our understanding of our closest companions in space is far from complete: there are 8 planets, over 200 moons and many more small objects like dwarf planets, asteroids and comets to look at.

After May’s lunar eclipse, it’s time to get ready for a solar eclipse!

Today is podium day! Our judges have completed their evaluation of all the post-processed pictures submitted for the previous month contests and now we have the winners.

Hasta La Vista... Green

(Image: NGC 3532 - also called the Wishing Well Cluster - by Jim de Lillo )

Centres of galaxies are very dynamical environments, at high temperatures and density, and play a key role in a galaxy’s evolution.

The Perlmutter supercomputer will be used to produce the largest 3D map of the Universe!

The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. 

CBET 4968 & MPEC 2021-K89, issued on 2021, May 27, announce the discovery of a new comet (magnitude ~17.0) on CCD images taken on May 14.5 UT w

A new study establishes the link between rare, long-period comets coming from the outskirts of the Solar System and observable meteor showers.

Thanks to the Star Formation in Gaseous Environments algorithm (STARFORGE), we can view an unprecedentedly detailed simulation of the process of star formation.