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A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar B1509-58 — a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. By combining radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact …

This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe. The findings shake up our understanding of the origin of stars in the early universe and “calls for a reassessment of the helium chemistry in the early universe,” …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the rest of the universe. An estimate from 2023 …

The test tube carrying the Pakistan-origin wheat seeds was aboard the SpaceX Dragon Capsule, which was launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre on August 1. Space, as all Trekkies agree, is the final frontier. It is mysterious, magnificent, mighty, and draws in earthlings who have long dreamed of exploring other worlds. In recent years, these dreams have crossed over from …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The earliest stars formed hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang by employing helium hydride ion reactions. | Credit: John Lund via Getty Images For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of …

For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe. The findings shake up our understanding of the origin of stars in the early universe and “calls for a reassessment of the helium chemistry in the early universe,” the researchers wrote in the new study, published July 24 in the …

NASA has released a compilation of nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO) QUICK FACTS What it is: Nine archive images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope Where it is: Nearby pockets of star formation and distant galaxies with giant black holes When it was shared: July 23, 2025 This …

Astronomers have detected signs of complex organic molecules, the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it, in a planet-forming disk around a distant star. The findings imply that the chemical seeds of life are constructed in space and are then spread to young or newly forming planets. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), a …

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s superpowers is its ability to investigate the cosmic dawn, the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The telescope has once again lived up to its reputation, spotting light from a galaxy which existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang, the most distant ever detected. Known as MoM-z14, it …

NASA has unveiled a dazzling new collection of cosmic images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing spectacular stellar, nebular and galactic activity in unprecedented detail. The collection showcases nine composite images that combine Chandra’s X-ray data with observations from other space and ground-based telescopes across the infrared, optical and radio spectrum, according to a statement releasing the new images on …