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Australia has a relative abundance of astro-tourism destinations, and a growing movement to help protect their darkness

Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Read more on Dynamite…

Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years away from the nearest star, with only its planetary system for company. But it wasn’t always like this. We almost exclusively observe young stars in groups, so-called stellar nurseries, where…

Is it dark matter or pulsars giving off weird gamma rays? The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is giving astronomers a possible headache.

At a mere 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, as scientists comfortingly call the galaxies nearest our Milky Way. The cloud is home to the hottest, most massive stars known. James Webb has sent…

A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the centre of our galaxy dubbed the “Fermi bubbles”, has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012.

A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the centre of our galaxy dubbed the “Fermi bubbles”, has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012.

Owen Humphreys was up early and patiently waited for clouds to break so he could photograph the aurora borealis and stars

These two merging galaxies are locked in a cosmic death spiral similar to the one that binds us to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Peter Ribbeck waited until 11.30pm to get the shot, which he captured while standing on a rock with his tripod as the waves lapped around his feet.

A new paper on life outside our planet calculated that a handful of evil aliens could potentially invade us - although it found the chances of it happening are "very low"