Fantastic new images show the details of the Large Magellanic Cloud and of its history – but also of its background.

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.

I was reorganizing my collection of astronomy specific stuff (again) and rediscovered my observing logbooks.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt – this is the Inner Solar System we are all familiar with.

I’ve struggled to understand the concept of Sampling so I finally decided to tackle the issue once and for all by finding all the relevant sources to learn and understand it.

We measure the sky and objects in degrees of arc, which can be further divided into arcseconds and arcminutes.

Multiple recent studies have focused on galaxies to lift the veil on their formation - by looking at their radio lobes, building computer models or even diagnosing a broken spiral arm.

Recent observations show two objects that are so well aligned with Earth that we see incredible ring shapes.

Data from the Cassini mission, showing rippling waves in Saturn's rings, has at long last been interpreted as evidence for the planet containing a fuzzy core.

Watch out for the Solar System’ giants this week! Jupiter reaches opposition, making it appear at its largest and brightest.

The L 98-59 exoplanetary system is located only 35 light-years away from Earth, and may be one of the closest ones where a planet hosts life.

For its tenth birthday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft was given an unprecedented view of the Solar System’s largest Moon: Jupiter’s Ganymede.