Astronomers capture a vibrant array of celestial colours

During a test of the HAWK-I camera, the Very Large Telescope captured this amazing image of a young generation of stars blossoming with colour

Unexpected nitrogen discovered in ‘butterfly-shaped’ star cloud

The stellar formation area has a peculiar section of compounds

The European Extremely Large Telescope will observe the universe in unprecedented detail on top of a mountain in northern Chile

“Now we can do real astrophysical analysis on the burst source and the galaxy that harbours it,” says James Cordes of Cornell University

Researchers have confirmed that electromagnetism in a distant galaxy has the same strength as here on Earth

Astrophysicists at the University of Bern have modelled the evolution of the putative planet in the outer Solar System

A miniaturised laboratory that analyses samples for materials associated with life is being constructed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

It’s a way of finding distant worlds, so how does it work?

How ALMA will give us our best view of the universe from Earth.