Explore the Universe
Welcome to the frontier of space exploration. Discover breathtaking celestial wonders, cutting-edge discoveries, and the untold stories hidden among the stars.
WD J1011+2845 is a nearby white dwarf whose calculated colour is a remarkable deep salmon pink. Imagine looking into space and discovering a star that appears salmon pink. It sounds like science...
NASA/STScI/A. Pagan. The same patch of sky, dark matter density mapped by Hubble in 2007 on the left and James Webb Space Telescope in 2026 on the right. You are standing inside a galaxy that should...
Parallel universes vs multiverse: most people use the two terms as if they mean the same thing, and physicists say they do not. One imagines other universes far beyond our own. The other splits...
Jupiter's south pole, photographed directly by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Every oval you see here is its own storm, some as wide as 1,000 kilometers, locked in a formation nobody expected and nobody has...
How long could humans survive without the Sun? Most people on the surface would likely last weeks to months, as temperatures fall below freezing within a week and crops stop growing. Underground...
Simulated view, not a photograph. Mars appears brighter than any single star in the cluster. Mars in the Beehive Cluster is one of the most interesting morning sky sights of October 2026. Mars passes...
NASA/JPL-Caltech. Artist's concept of TOI-199b, a temperate gas giant studied in detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. Picture standing on a world the size of Saturn, where the air outside would...
NASA, ESA, STScI, Agustin Sanchez Lavega (UPV), Amy Simon (NASA GSFC), Michael Wong (UC Berkeley). Hubble image from August 29, 2025 showing the decagon encircling Saturn's south pole. Saturn has...
Mars, photographed by NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. The long scar cutting across the center of the planet is Valles Marineris, a canyon system stretching more than 3,000 kilometers and plunging as deep as...