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artist's impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around its host stars

Space

Exoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pair

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion

Eta Aquarids meteor shower

Space

How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers

KHKRFM Haumea and moons, illustration. Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. It is noted for its elongated shape, somewhat like a rugby ball. It is orbited by at least two moons and a narrow ring of rocky particles.

Space

How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system’s strangest objects

Space

Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole ‘star’

Space

An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

Space

Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop

NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. Shimmering ejections emitted by two actively forming stars make up Lynds 483 (L483). High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows incredible new detail and structure within these lobes. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Space

See a shimmering hourglass-shaped star system in exquisite detail

Space

The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought

Space

Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre

G0T7G0 Milky Way streaks across the sky at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire with the iconic Church Rock out to sea. Also pictured is Saturn

Space

How to tell a planet from a star 鈥� and one planet from another

A lot of planets are currently visible in the night sky. Leah Crane has some great field tips to help you spot them

NASA set to launch SPHEREx space telescope to scan entire sky

Physics

How does astronomy fit into astrophysics 鈥� and does it matter?

Space

When did the first galaxies form? Earlier than we thought possible

Space

Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found