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From dazzling eclipses to rare planetary meet‑ups, the night sky is full of events worth looking up for. Hunt for the various... Read more »

Rapid advances in commercial space, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are transforming what is possible for Earth observation. By pushing more intelligence... Read more »

Our best family binoculars, the Celestron Cometron 7x50 binoculars, are now $13 cheaper on Amazon and are perfect for getting a better... Read more »

Video: 00:04:21 Space activities are unlike any others. They interact not just with Earth, but with three interconnected environments: Earth, Earth’s orbit,... Read more »

A February moon offers a practical preview of where to look for March's total lunar eclipse.... Read more »

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment... Read more »

When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy.... Read more »

On Jan. 31, 1966, the Soviets launched Luna 9 from Baikonur Cosmodrome with a plan to land on the surface of the... Read more »

If you live in the United States, mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 3. That’s when a total lunar eclipse will occur... Read more »

The full Snow moon flooded February skies with winter glow. See breathtaking images captured by our incredible photographers around the world. The... Read more »

The moon will take on a dramatic blood red hue during the total lunar eclipse on March 3.... Read more »

Magnetism on the Moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far... Read more »

Sun news February 3, 2026: Giant sunspot AR4366 unleashed 14 M flares in the past day! The risk of more X flares... Read more »

The Artemis 2 launch of 4 astronauts, on a mission around the moon, has been delayed. The launch will take place no... Read more »

Visible planets and night sky guide. Tonight, look for the moon near Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the Lion. They will... Read more »

The zodiacal light is an eerie light extending up from the horizon. During the months around the March equinox is a good... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  February 2: The Moon occults Regulus Uranus stands stationary... Read more »

NASA has delayed its Artemis 2 moon launch until March at the earliest, after encountering some issues during a key prelaunch exercise... Read more »

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars... Read more »

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he’s making space-based artificial intelligence the “immediate focus” of a newly expanded company that not only builds... Read more »

NASA fully fueled its Artemis 2 moon rocket during a crucial test today (Feb. 2) but had to pause the operation twice... Read more »

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard... Read more »

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard... Read more »

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was... Read more »

Arp 220 is a well-known pair of galaxies that are merging. New ALMA observations of polarized light reveal the complex and powerful... Read more »

This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects.... Read more »

Mission Highlight: Artemis 2 NASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 8, for the launch of the historic Artemis 2 mission.... Read more »

NASA's upcoming Artemis 2 moon mission is historic, but it's designed to pave the way for even bigger things.... Read more »

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. This “lens-shaped”... Read more »

NASA's Orion spacecraft sits atop the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the launch pad after rollout on Jan. 17, 2026.... Read more »

NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry the Artemis II crew around the Moon, sits at the launch pad on Jan. 17, 2026,... Read more »

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best... Read more »

Editor’s note: This advisory was updated at on Feb. 3, 2026, to reflect a change in the start of the news conference... Read more »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.... Read more »

One of the brightest stars in the night sky will vanish as seen from North America and Europe in a rare event.... Read more »

A smaller Lego Star Wars BB-8 model replaces the one that retired in 2019. It’s a great model, but we’re not sure... Read more »

Arizona skywatchers got treated to both a beautiful sunset and a blazing comet streaking across the skies.... Read more »

2026 2026 TSC Artemis II Pre-launch Reception 2.5.26 2026 VABA AAAAM Legislative Reception 2.4.26 Chamber of Commerce Summit 2.2.26 Cheniere Energy at... Read more »

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on a clear moonless night to see one of the... Read more »

Barry Burgess, taken from Aspotogan, Nova Scotia, Canada Green, red, and purple hues are all on display in this auroral display photographed... Read more »

On Feb. 2, Groundhog Day, tradition holds that if the groundhog sticks his head out of his burrow and sees his shadow,... Read more »

Astronomical winter reaches its true midpoint on Feb. 3, as daylight gains begin to accelerate across the Northern Hemisphere.... Read more »

What happens if Earth stops rotating?Etan MeyerBoca Raton, FL I will assume you’re referring to what would happen if Earth stopped rotating... Read more »

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a crew of astronauts... Read more »

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense... Read more »

See beautiful photos of February's full Snow Moon captured worldwide.... Read more »

Jacana birds glide effortlessly across wetlands, defying both physics and nature's common gender roles. Discover this amazing creature here. The post Jacana... Read more »

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up."... Read more »

The 2026 ESA Graduate Trainee positions are now open! If you’re passionate about engineering, science, IT or business, this is your chance... Read more »

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 team has entered a carefully controlled two-week quarantine as the countdown begins for their journey to the International Space... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  February 1: The February Full Snow Moon shines The... Read more »

NASA will conduct a crucial fueling test with its Artemis 2 moon rocket today (Feb. 2), and you can watch the action... Read more »

Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris.... Read more »

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to... Read more »

While the world awaits the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years, Time magazine is celebrating the momentous event with... Read more »

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.... Read more »

The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, the swan.... Read more »

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.... Read more »

The oldest wooden tools used by early humans have been uncovered in an ancient lakebed in Greece. The hand tools date to... Read more »

Lists of common full moon names - both by month and by season - for North America. And a word about full... Read more »

The predicted high for Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on February 2, Groundhog Day, is 24 degrees F (-4 C) and cloudy. Will Phil see... Read more »

Are you a February baby? Here's some cool info about your February birthstone, the amethyst. Read the lore of this purple stone,... Read more »

The 'Snow Moon' is named for the inclement weather that is common in January.... Read more »

In this month’s episode, go on a tour of the stars and planets that you’ll see overhead during February. First we’ll keep... Read more »

In this month’s episode, go on a tour of the stars and planets that you’ll see overhead during February. First we’ll keep... Read more »

In this month’s episode, go on a tour of the stars and planets that you’ll see overhead during February. First we’ll keep... Read more »

InterstellOr is already taking bookings for its planned suborbital flights and says it has attracted its first celebrity passenger, highlighting China's growing... Read more »

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and... Read more »

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found... Read more »

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four... Read more »

Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines.... Read more »

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community... Read more »

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A... Read more »

How space dogfighting games evolved from vector lines to virtual cockpits.... Read more »

The Peak Design 25L Outdoor Backpack provides versatility and quality for a variety of outdoor uses.... Read more »

What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's Draco mission,... Read more »

For the first time, a complex, ring-shaped molecule containing 13 atoms—including sulfur—has been detected in interstellar space, based on laboratory measurements. The... Read more »

The search for life-supporting worlds in the Solar System includes the Jovian moon Europa. Yes, it's an iceberg of a world, but... Read more »

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch... Read more »

SpaceX launch date of Crew-12 astronauts to the International Space Station will depend on the outcome of the Artemis 2 wet dress... Read more »

Red Geysers are an unusual class of galaxy that contain only old stars. Despite having plenty of star-forming gas, Red Geysers are... Read more »

Blue Origin will ground its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for at least two years, in order to devote more resources to the... Read more »

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high... Read more »

While NASA is working with U.S. aviation to explore commercial supersonic technologies, the agency is also looking forward to an even faster... Read more »

Description This animation of NASA’s Perseverance was created with the Caspian visualization tool using data acquired during an 807-foot (246-meter) drive on the rim... Read more »

NASA OUTSTANDING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP MEDAL Awarded for notable leadership accomplishments that have significantly influenced NASA’s mission. Sustained leadership and exceptionally high-impact leadership... Read more »

Description This animation shows Perseverance’s point of view during drive of 807 feet (246 meters) along the rim of Jezero Crater on... Read more »

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.... Read more »

Deep Space Station 15 (DSS-15), one of the 112-foot (34-meter) antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks... Read more »

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a tantalizing target in the search for habitability in our Solar System. Its thick, global ice sheet... Read more »

Read an excerpt of this deep-space mystery from the prolific writer of 'Whalefall' and 'Angel Down.'... Read more »

The light, rare element boron, better known as the primary component of borax, a longtime household cleaner, was almost mined to exhaustion... Read more »

NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually cold weather forecasted... Read more »

When the rover now named Perseverance landed in Jezero crater in early 2021, scientists already knew they had picked an interesting place... Read more »

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.... Read more »

Both Windows and MacBooks have advantages for astrophotography, but the choice will depend on your power level and budget.... Read more »

Week in images: 26-30 January 2026 Discover our week through the lens... Read more »

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The dazzling Moon occults Regulus Monday night while Regulus is busy announcing February. Betelgeuse turns the Winter Hexagon into the Heavenly G.... Read more »

The dazzling Moon occults Regulus Monday night while Regulus is busy announcing February. Betelgeuse turns the Winter Hexagon into the Heavenly G.... Read more »

The dazzling Moon occults Regulus Monday night while Regulus is busy announcing February. Betelgeuse turns the Winter Hexagon into the Heavenly G.... Read more »

The dazzling Moon occults Regulus Monday night while Regulus is busy announcing February. Betelgeuse turns the Winter Hexagon into the Heavenly G.... Read more »

The comet broke into pieces after making a close approach around the sun in October 2025.... Read more »

"We are on Day 1. A lot more needs to be done."... Read more »

Press Release N° 5–2026 The European Space Agency Council has approved the reassignment of Laurent Jaffart, currently Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications (D/CSC) to the newly... Read more »

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker and the... Read more »

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China’s eastern seaboard.... Read more »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from California on Jan. 29, 2026. The company repeated the feat... Read more »

Researchers at KAIST have developed a breakthrough technology that could dramatically improve our ability to image black holes and other distant objects.... Read more »

Get ready for a month packed full of thrilling Moon-related events! From occultations of stars and planets, and even an eclipse, the... Read more »

It’s 2050 and you’re living on Venus. This might come as a surprise due to the planet’s crushing surface pressures (~92 times... Read more »

Solar flares are one of the most closely watched processes in solar physics. Partly that’s because they can prove hazardous both to... Read more »

A new study led by researchers from Aarhus University showed that amino acids spontaneously bond in space, producing peptides that are essential... Read more »

Astronomers have solved a bit of a mystery that had them questioning whether one of the most extreme stars ever observed was... Read more »

NASA has completed its first major testing of nuclear reactor hardware for spacecraft propulsion in over 50 years, marking a crucial step... Read more »

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture... Read more »

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite from New Zealand on Thursday (Jan. 29), about six weeks later than originally planned.... Read more »

NASA has awarded more than $5 million to 29 institutions nationwide to expand and strengthen science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning... Read more »

Finding Earth-like planets is the primary driver of exoplanet searches because as far as we know, they're the ones most likely to... Read more »

Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think again…... Read more »

The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which launched to Earth orbit... Read more »

New observations reveal a strange structure in the iconic nebula that has evaded astronomers for centuries. The post The Ring Nebula Has... Read more »

The Milky Way's Galactic Center and Bulge are shrouded in thick dust and tightly-packed with stars. It's a tough region to observe,... Read more »

A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a portion of the Helix Nebula highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar winds,... Read more »

The crew of four will launch no earlier than Wednesday 11 February at 11:00 GMT/12:00 CET (06:00 EST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA. The next... Read more »

Jupiter’s atmosphere and clouds have mesmerized stargazers for centuries, as their multi-colored, swirling layers can easily be viewed from powerful telescopes on... Read more »

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the Universe using the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated... Read more »

This stellar landscape is reminiscent of a winter vista in a view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (red, green, and blue).... Read more »

Two days of intense discussions and exchanges came to an end at the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels on Wednesday.... Read more »

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and making dozens of evasive maneuvers... Read more »

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” and black holes that seem... Read more »

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years leading up... Read more »

The final release of data from the Dark Energy Survey widens tensions in our understanding of the cosmic evolution. The post The... Read more »

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal flare caused... Read more »

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. Researchers using new data from Webb’s MIRI proved that... Read more »

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These aluminum-rich clays, called... Read more »

A seemingly serene landscape of gas and dust is hopping with star formation behind the scenes.... Read more »

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after the Big... Read more »

Sculpted gases in the Helix Nebula, revealed in a new Webb image, look like the firework-like tendrils in a distant amateur-discovered supernova... Read more »

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view... Read more »

We were profoundly saddened to be informed of Dr Allan Chapman’s passing last week. A few months shy of his 80th birthday,... Read more »

NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, and advanced technology. In... Read more »

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already... Read more »

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was passing in front of it.... Read more »

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to map the... Read more »

Astronomers have spotted a rare, rule-breaking quasar in the early Universe that appears to be growing its central black hole at an... Read more »

A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which... Read more »

Tiny Mars might have an outsize effect on Earth's climate over hundreds of thousands of years. The post Scientists Measure Mars's Effect... Read more »

A new study suggests that an early version of Mars’s smaller moon Deimos was pulverized by its own debris, explaining the moon's... Read more »

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become heavy enough to break... Read more »

The waxing Moon marches east across the evening sky. It says hello to binary Gamma Arietis on Saturday, then occults some of... Read more »

The waxing Moon marches east across the evening sky. It says hello to binary Gamma Arietis on Saturday, then occults some of... Read more »

The waxing Moon marches east across the evening sky. It says hello to binary Gamma Arietis on Saturday, then occults some of... Read more »

The waxing Moon marches east across the evening sky. It says hello to binary Gamma Arietis on Saturday, then occults some of... Read more »

The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan.... Read more »

New videos from the Solar Orbiter and the Chandra X-ray Observatory capture magnetic avalanches on the Sun and the exploding remnants of... Read more »

NASA astronaut Suni Williams has retired after 27 years of service and a career defined by endurance, leadership, and firsts in space.... Read more »

Mira the Wonderful is back! Of course, it's always been there, but now it's near maximum brightness and easily visible with the... Read more »

Mira the Wonderful is back! Of course, it's always been there, but now it's near maximum brightness and easily visible with the... Read more »

Mira the Wonderful is back! Of course, it's always been there, but now it's near maximum brightness and easily visible with the... Read more »

Mira the Wonderful is back! Of course, it's always been there, but now it's near maximum brightness and easily visible with the... Read more »

In fall 2025, more than 50 educators and over 1,500 young people across Maine and New Hampshire participated in NASA’s Global Learning... Read more »

The goal of NASA’s Universe of Learning (UoL) is to connect the public to the data, discoveries, and experts that span NASA’s... Read more »

NASA's massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carried the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft on the Mobile Launcher... Read more »

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists found that simple amino... Read more »

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Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances... Read more »

A bright reflection nebula shares the stage with a protostar and planet-forming disk in this Hubble image.... Read more »

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a... Read more »

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-121b for an... Read more »

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.... Read more »

NASA’s Artemis II rocket has reached its launch pad after a painstaking overnight crawl across Kennedy Space Center. Engineers are now preparing... Read more »

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with... Read more »

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of times... Read more »

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way they do on Earth.... Read more »

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The... Read more »

A potentially large member of the Kreutz family comets is speeding its way to a perihelion encounter during the first week of... Read more »

This winter the biggest planet is the brightest. The brightest star pins the Winter Triangle. And did you know Capella and Rigel... Read more »

This winter the biggest planet is the brightest. The brightest star pins the Winter Triangle. And did you know Capella and Rigel... Read more »

This winter the biggest planet is the brightest. The brightest star pins the Winter Triangle. And did you know Capella and Rigel... Read more »

SpaceX Crew-11 splashed down safely in the Pacific after more than five months in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The four... Read more »

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes hidden inside... Read more »

Jets of ionized gas streak across a cosmic landscape from a newly forming star.... Read more »

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as scientists long... Read more »

The New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population... Read more »

This year offers an interesting mix of celestial coverups: a total solar eclipse viewable from Spain and two deep lunar eclipses (one... Read more »

This year offers an interesting mix of celestial coverups: a total solar eclipse viewable from Spain and two deep lunar eclipses (one... Read more »

NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, are ready to... Read more »

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop for... Read more »

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts electricity. This unusual... Read more »

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Scientists used... Read more »

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, overturning a... Read more »

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests... Read more »

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole at its... Read more »

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast... Read more »

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists believe it is... Read more »

Images depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off... Read more »

Jupiter is at opposition. Evenings are moonless, and the winter Milky Way arches high over the world. Betelgeuse stands over Sirius. The... Read more »

Jupiter is at opposition. Evenings are moonless, and the winter Milky Way arches high over the world. Betelgeuse stands over Sirius. The... Read more »

Jupiter is at opposition. Evenings are moonless, and the winter Milky Way arches high over the world. Betelgeuse stands over Sirius. The... Read more »

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents... Read more »

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By electroplating... Read more »

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data... Read more »

Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Victor Glover, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy... Read more »

Observers across America may witness a special transit and shadow event of Jupiter’s moon on opposition day. The post An extremely rare... Read more »

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly.... Read more »

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to... Read more »

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far earlier and burned far... Read more »

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest... Read more »

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between large space rocks. One of... Read more »

Jupiter's having a special moment! Don't miss the giant planet at its best when it reaches opposition this week. The post Big... Read more »

Jupiter's having a special moment! Don't miss the giant planet at its best when it reaches opposition this week. The post Big... Read more »

Jupiter's having a special moment! Don't miss the giant planet at its best when it reaches opposition this week. The post Big... Read more »

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan,... Read more »

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By monitoring this effect... Read more »

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18,... Read more »

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials... Read more »

A NASA internship provides a stellar opportunity to launch your future as part of America’s aerospace workforce. NASA interns take on meaningful... Read more »

A scientific balloon starts its ascent into the air as it prepares to launch carrying NASA’s Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO)... Read more »

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than... Read more »

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope. This rare dual... Read more »

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 4388, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster.... Read more »

The bright Moon shines over Jupiter, Pollux and Castor on Friday evening the 2nd, then groups right up among them on Saturday... Read more »

The bright Moon shines over Jupiter, Pollux and Castor on Friday evening the 2nd, then groups right up among them on Saturday... Read more »

The bright Moon shines over Jupiter, Pollux and Castor on Friday evening the 2nd, then groups right up among them on Saturday... Read more »

The Quadrantids and Eta Aquariids will have Moon trouble in 2026, but the beloved Perseids and Geminids should be glorious. The post... Read more »

Native American tribes each had their own full Moon names — we introduce the most commonly used ones and the traditions behind... Read more »

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has... Read more »

In this month’s episode, start with one of the year’s best meteor showers, then spend some time with Jupiter, and check out... Read more »

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from both its... Read more »

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams colliding almost immediately, while... Read more »

As we age, our immune system quietly loses its edge, and scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why. A protein called platelet... Read more »

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the... Read more »

Tour 15 of the sky's brightest stars all in one night on this New Year's Eve! This interactive Worldwide Telescope video will... Read more »

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning... Read more »

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that... Read more »

Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory come together in this eye-catching photo of colliding spiral galaxies released... Read more »

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event... Read more »

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than... Read more »

Tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the... Read more »

Jupiter nears opposition. The waxing Moon pairs with Saturn, then guides the way to the fine telescopic double star Gamma Arietis. Later... Read more »

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NASA engineer Guy Naylor poses for a photograph wearing a custom Santa Claus suit on the 19th level of High Bay 4... Read more »

From left to right, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman are... Read more »

Waves of recent star formation have made Orion winter's most scintillating constellation. You can see how it all came to be. The... Read more »

These two galaxies are named NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, and they’re located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation Canes... Read more »

In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems,... Read more »

We greet the winter solstice. Jupiter nears opposition. Will the two Dog Stars balance for you? And meet the House in the... Read more »