The Royal Observatory Greenwich has narrowed the search for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The winners will be announced on September 17.

A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist features eclipses, nebulae, aurorae and Milky Way images ahead of the September winners announcement.

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Second only to black holes, neutron stars – incredibly dense star remnants – are the densest objects in the universe. When neutron stars collide, they create ripples in the fabric of space and time in ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

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NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has completed observations for the Very ...

The pictures, on the competition's shortlist, reveal the remarkable celestial objects that lie above our heads, both in deep space and closer to home ...