At first glance, a sky full of stars...

Look closer: most of these tiny points of light are actually galaxies!

This Rubin Observatory view captures around 10 million of them, each with a story to uncover.

(Video by WorldAndScience - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)

A breathtaking cosmic landscape where new stars are taking shape in NGC 3576, around 20,000 light-years away...

(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: ESO/G. Beccari)

A grain of sand sounds harmless. But at speed in space it can have an enormous impact...

A particle no bigger than a grain of sand punched this hole in the Solar Max satellite.

(Credit: NASA)

Do you feel as if time is passing noticeably faster now than it did a decade ago?

When spiral galaxies collide: an infrared look at NGC 2207 and its companion.

(Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Optical: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI); Infrared image: NASA, JPL-Caltech; X-ray image: NASA, CXC, SAO, S. Mineo et al.)

The world’s highest peak from a little higher still. Mount Everest as seen from space.

(Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

A Cosmic spectacle: A blazing meteor lights up the sky above Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona while Orion climbs the horizon and daylight slowly returns.

(Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Dai)

Meet NGC 2366: A compact, irregular galaxy that trades elegance for energy. Though it lacks spiral arms, it brims with young, bright stars forming inside its glowing nebula.

(Credit: NASA & ESA)

If you could bring one sci-fi invention into the real world, what would it be?

Does Space Go On Forever?

Five Experts Give Surprising Answers: universal-sci.com/article/is-the…

Spectacular: Two distorted galaxies, one powerful gravitational encounter. Arp-Madore 2105-332 reveals how interactions can transform galaxies and ignite new stars!

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgement: L. Shatz)

Wings like glass. The beautiful Greta oto.

(Credit: David Tiller)

What is a deeply held belief you used to have that you completely reversed your stance on?

Hard to look away from something this beautiful. The aurora australis, seen from space.

(Credit: NASA Johnson)

Video Games Get Blamed for Real-Life Violence.

The Evidence Tells a Different Story: universal-sci.com/article/do-vid…

Enthralling: UGC 8201, a dwarf irregular galaxy 15 million light-years distant, has emerged from a star-forming period lasting several hundred million years and now deepens our understanding of how small galaxies endure with limited energy and gas.

(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)

Astronomers may have discovered an entirely new kind of cosmic object: universal-sci.com/article/this-s…

The nebula Gum 80 is hiding an impostor. Its brilliant central star makes the surrounding hydrogen glow red, but astronomers think it was born in the nearby Eagle Nebula.

(Video by WorldAndScience - Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team)

If you were given the rights to name the first human spacecraft to leave our galaxy, what would you call it?

This amazing infrared image shows Monoceros R2, a star-forming region about 2,700 light-years. It features young, massive stars lighting up reflection nebulae within a vast molecular cloud

(Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

Spectacular! Beyond Visible Light: Exploring the Pinwheel Galaxy

(Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin, J. Trauger, J. Mould, Y.-H. Chu, and STScI; Infrared image: NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, and K. Gordon. X-ray image: NASA, CXC, and K. Kuntz)