Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Naomi Arnold on the Te Araroa trail. Reading room is supported by Creative New Zealand, encouraging, promoting and supporting ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...