Mauricio Pochettino's United States exit the World Cup as they are well-beaten by Belgium, who set up a quarter-final tie ...

England must wait to secure qualification for the World Cup knockout phase as they are held to a draw by Ghana at Boston Stadium.

A globular cluster typically has only one ancient star population. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope not only confirm the existence of ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

Star formation often occurs in groups rather than in isolation. In some cases, two newborn stars become gravitationally bound, creating what astronomers call a binary star system. Observations ...

A stunning new image released by NASA on March 19, 2026, reveals Westerlund 2, a cluster of stars glowing in neon pink, nestled within one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Captured ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. What is the bright “star” in the sky after sunset?

According to research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) by astrophysicists at the University of Lancashire, planets develop more easily around double ...

The Milky Way stretches across the night sky in a soft band of light that feels endless. But beneath that glow lies a simple question: where does our galaxy actually end? Astronomers have wrestled ...

A galaxy dying is not a gentle thing. Its star-making factories, once churning out millions of suns, grind to a halt. Rather than a slow fade, it's a sudden, striking shutdown, a phenomenon ...

Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...