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The Royal Museums Greenwich has revealed the shortlisted photos for its annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

From the Botswana to Alaska, this collection of extraordinary night photography explores the far reaches of the starry sky.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new star cluster (SC) as part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. The newfound cluster, designated DELVE 6, is ultra-faint, metal-poor and is estimated to be about 9 billion years old. The finding was detailed in a paper published June 7 on the pre-print server arXiv.

The ingredients for planetary formation - the dust that gradually comes together to form bodies like the Earth - have been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a galaxy near the Milky Way. The discovery, outlined in a paper …

The ingredients for planetary formation - the dust that gradually comes together to form bodies like the Earth - have been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a galaxy near the Milky Way (ANSA)

The ingredients for planetary formation - the dust that gradually comes together to form bodies like the Earth - have been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud...

Astronomers made a strange discovery of elongated structures that look like strands flailing towards a super colossal black hole present at the centre of the galaxy.According to the researchers,...

Astronomers from Texas A&M University have discovered complex organic molecules commonly found in smoke and soot in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth.

Cutting-edge renditions of cosmic photographs, massive early universe stars, overcrowding at the International Space Station, and the end of a satellite launch initiative

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week. Bigfoot researcher Jim Brown investigated