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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.

Two smart books probe multiverses, dark matter – and sexual politics

27 July 2022

Is our universe one of a myriad? How hard is it to be a woman in science? Beyond the Big Bang and The Elephant in the Universe explore these questions and more
Galaxies

JWST finds galaxies may adopt Milky Way-like shape faster than thought

25 July 2022

Astronomers thought that galaxies in the early universe would mostly be shapeless blobs, but an analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests around half are disc-shaped like the Milky Way
China's space station module Wentian and a Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket at the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on 18 July 2022 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China

China prepares to launch laboratory module to Tiangong space station

21 July 2022

On 24 July, China will launch the second of three modules to its space station, with the rocket taking off from Hainan Island, located southwest of Hong Kong, at around 2pm local time
GLASS-z13, the oldest galaxy ever seen

JWST has found the oldest galaxy we have ever seen in the universe

20 July 2022

Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope are pouring in, with an analysis of the latest data revealing a galaxy that dates back to just 300 million years after the big bang – the oldest we have ever seen

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