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For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough... Read more »

Our Sun didn't always call this quiet corner of the Milky Way home. New research using data from the European Space Agency's... Read more »

But here’s the thing about these defects. They can’t just go away. They’re stuck.... Read more »

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost... Read more »

After training in theology and becoming a deacon, Nicolas-Louis de La Caille (born March 15, 1713) turned his focus to geometry and... Read more »

Sun news for March 15, 2026: Auroras danced under G2 storm conditions as solar wind hit 700 km/s. More G1-G2 storming possible... Read more »

Astrophotographer Emil Andronic captured a gorgeous blue reflection nebula glowing inside the red clouds of Orion's Head in the constellation Orion.... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered the brightest fast radio burst ever detected and traced it to a nearby galaxy using a new network of... Read more »

If you become familiar with cloud shapes, it can help you know what type of weather might be coming. Read more to... Read more »

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to... Read more »

Take the training to become a storm spotter to help keep meteorologists informed of what's happening on the ground and keep people... Read more »

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing... Read more »

Visible planets and night sky guide. Tomorrow morning, look for the very thin crescent moon above the horizon about 30 minutes before... Read more »

What are the Ides of March? That's March 15. In Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar was warned to "Beware the Ides of March"... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  March 14: Io rounds Jupiter The distant ice giant... Read more »

Happy equinox! The 2026 March equinox falls on March 20 at 14:46 UTC (9:46 a.m. CDT). All you need to know about... Read more »

On 2 July 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray burst lasting over seven hours, nearly twice the duration of... Read more »

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much... Read more »

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These... Read more »

The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a... Read more »

Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t... Read more »

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force... Read more »

On Episode 201 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Jay Gallentine to talk about former... Read more »

Every planet with a magnetic field has a radiation belt, a region of space where charged particles get trapped and flung around... Read more »

Follow these tips for cleaning the different parts of your camera lens, without risking damage.... Read more »

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter Quill guarded the galaxy.... Read more »

So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month... Read more »

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Germany. Early in his life, he demonstrated passion for music and science; in... Read more »

Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.... Read more »

March 14 is Pi Day, an annual mathematical event for science lovers. Here's how to celebrate and take part in the NASA... Read more »

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.... Read more »

Albert Einstein - born March 14, 1879 - changed our notions of matter, space and time. He launched modern physics, and became... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  March 13: Look into the eyes of the Owl... Read more »

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like... Read more »

Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay... Read more »

The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon... Read more »

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.... Read more »

It's just a prank, bro!... Read more »

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20,... Read more »

NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance.  Challenges facing... Read more »

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the 1960s,... Read more »

Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with a somber UFO invasion flick this summer... Read more »

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, invites innovative companies, government agencies, and organizations to attend Partnership Days, scheduled for Wednesday... Read more »

So that's all nice. But why now? That's the question everyone asks. We went decades — centuries, millennia really — without seeing... Read more »

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab... Read more »

Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are intricately associated with... Read more »

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab... Read more »

Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The... Read more »

Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The... Read more »

Saharan dust and atmospheric filtering combined to give the moon a dramatic red hue.... Read more »

Read this web article in English here. Unos ocho minutos después del despegue de Artemis II, la nave espacial Orion y su tripulación —los... Read more »

About eight minutes after Artemis II lifts off, the Orion spacecraft and its crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina... Read more »

Here are some of the best model rocket kits for those counting down to their first blast off.... Read more »

Planning to run this year’s Messier marathon? March 14/15 and 21/22 are the best nights to give it a go. Your ideal... Read more »

French astronomer Charles Messier did not intend to be remembered for his discoveries of galaxies, nebulae, and stars clusters when he looked... Read more »

Artemis 2's launch may have been pushed back but you build your own adventure with these Lego Ideas and Lego Technic Artemis... Read more »

Week in images: 09-13 March 2026 Discover our week through the lens... Read more »

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen... Read more »

The sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is getting brighter! Some are calling it the Easter comet, because it will be at its... Read more »

In March of 1989, a highly active sunspot region released multiple extreme solar flares, including an X4.5 flare on March 10 and... Read more »

Dragonfly will explore the giant Saturn moon Titan by air, helping scientists learn about the proto-ingredients of life on the satellite's hazy... 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 »

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight and tomorrow as a speedy solar wind stream is due to arrive.... Read more »

NASA's Artemis 2 mission, which will launch astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, comes with... Read more »

A new study suggests the sun might be a migrant that was born in the inner galaxy and journeyed outward, in the... Read more »

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed... Read more »

A rare, near perfect young-Moon challenge awaits North Americans after sunset on March 19th. Jupiter rules the evening from on high in... Read more »

A rare, near perfect young-Moon challenge awaits North Americans after sunset on March 19th. Jupiter rules the evening from on high in... Read more »

A rare, near perfect young-Moon challenge awaits North Americans after sunset on March 19th. Jupiter rules the evening from on high in... Read more »

A rare, near perfect young-Moon challenge awaits North Americans after sunset on March 19th. Jupiter rules the evening from on high in... Read more »

Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission shows us the maritime traffic passing through the Øresund Strait in 2025.... Read more »

Imran Badr, taken from San Jose, California Our nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), shows off its star-forming regions, glowing... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  March 12: Europa and its shadow cross Jupiter Look... Read more »

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear... Read more »

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before... Read more »

Adult Swim's wild animated sensation is back for more sci-fi insanity in May.... Read more »

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and... Read more »

NASA has completed the Artemis 2 flight readiness review and plans to launch the historic moon mission as soon as April 1.... Read more »

Rocky planets are found in abundance around M-type stars (red dwarfs), so finding another one doesn't always generate headlines. But an international... Read more »

The 9023-piece Lego Star Wars UCS Death Star is a galaxy-shattering £135 off in Amazon UK's Spring Deal Days sale, but hurry!... Read more »

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the... Read more »

'Starfleet Academy''s principal mixes new ideas with inspiration from her famous predecessors... Read more »

A neutron star merger is an extraordinary event. It features extremely powerful, chaotic magnetic fields that generate extremely energetic photons. Supercomputer simulations... Read more »

So why should we expect interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS and 'Oumuamua and even to some extent Borisov to be different-different?... Read more »

A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage,... Read more »

NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks... Read more »

Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is... Read more »

MIT physicists have observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma... Read more »

Here's how to clean your camera sensor to get a crisp picture every time.... Read more »

The Yachance Night Light star projector is a geared firmly towards children.... Read more »

We’re starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth... Read more »

Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.... Read more »

The impetus for establishing a "Lunar Surface Moon Base" is that America is in a space race with China.... Read more »

Three years ago, a detector sitting on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea recorded a single subatomic particle carrying more energy than... Read more »

For 45 years, astronomers believed that stars like our Sun would eventually flip their rotation pattern as they aged with the poles... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic... Read more »

“Follow the water” has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally for decades. If you want to... Read more »

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is the best sub-250g drone ever made and now $500 off at Amazon; this Fly More Combo... Read more »

Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a promising step toward farming on the lunar surface. Researchers mixed moon-like regolith... Read more »

NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.... Read more »

Our sun and a host of "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long... Read more »

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to... Read more »

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launched for the seventh time ever today (March 11), bouncing back from two explosive mishaps in 2025.... Read more »

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.... Read more »

While megastructures are clearly speculative, new research shows that they can (in theory) be built in a way that ensures long-term stability.... Read more »

NASA telescopes have detected what could be the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. A merging pair of neutron stars generated when... Read more »

Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship departed the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and is scheduled to deorbit and... Read more »

Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for... Read more »

The disk of gas that spirals onto a newborn magnetar wobbles, creating "bumps" in the brightness of the supernova that accompanied this... Read more »

'The scope of 'Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'... Read more »

In Euclid’s wide, near-infrared, and visible light view, the arcs and filaments of the nebula’s bright central region are situated within a... Read more »

Astronomers have used 40 years’ worth of data to peer inside the Sun, revealing that the solar cycle can leave a distinct... Read more »

Our how-to for observing a meteorite through a microscope.... Read more »

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our... Read more »

Autobots, roll out – out of the way, that is, because War Machine is proving how to do human vs intergalactic machine... Read more »

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions... Read more »

Ready to launch your support? Check out this stellar collection of space-flight merch I've personally picked to back the amazing team of... Read more »

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form... Read more »

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.... Read more »

Dozens on amateur astronomers helped measure the minuscule difference in Didymos’s trajectory around the Sun, after NASA’s DART mission impacted its moon.... Read more »

'I just wanted to make a film that was completely non-stop from start to end.'... Read more »

This impact crater, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015, appeared relatively recent as it has a sharp rim and... Read more »

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital... Read more »

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far... Read more »

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it... Read more »

This article is for students grades 5-8. What is Pi? Pi is a number. You might know it as 3.14 or the... Read more »

A brain-new image from Webb! What looks like a brain (complete with what appear as left and right hemispheres) is actually a... Read more »

Students in New York will hear from NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and... Read more »

While small galaxies are expected to have even smaller satellite galaxies, astronomers have found a surprising number of tiny companions around one... Read more »

Video: 00:02:00 [EN] “Believe in your dreams, believe in yourself, and believe in that little nothing, that εpsilon, that can change everything…”ESA astronaut... Read more »

The Smile spacecraft has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a Vega-C rocket between 8 April and 7... Read more »

At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast... Read more »

At ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), teams work around the clock to fly spacecraft across the Solar System and monitor Earth... Read more »

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains the behavior of stars,... Read more »

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies... Read more »

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint streaks on the moon... Read more »

THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED ON MARCH 6, 2026 This Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with... Read more »

The latest JWST images, along with archival images taken before the asteroid was even discovered, combine to refine its trajectory. The post... Read more »

Weekends on the International Space Station are for housecleaning and haircuts. NASA astronaut Jessica Meir trims the hair of fellow NASA astronaut... Read more »

Week in images: 02-06 March 2026 Discover our week through the lens... Read more »

Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius... Read more »

Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius... Read more »

Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius... Read more »

Bright Jupiter highlights the Gemini stick-figure twins standing on either side of it. Down below, the Winter Triangle balances on its Sirius... Read more »

Image: These two views from Copernicus Sentinel-2 reveal the landscape transformation in the area around Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.... Read more »

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its... Read more »

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas... Read more »

A total lunar eclipse rises over New Orleans, home of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March... Read more »

The Vera Rubin Observatory is seeing 800,000 astronomical alerts per night — and that number will only increase. The post Rubin Observatory... Read more »

For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers... Read more »

An international team combining two major neutrino experiments has uncovered stronger evidence that neutrinos and antimatter don’t behave as perfect mirror images.... Read more »

Off the coast of California, NASA’s Artemis Landing and Recovery team and the Department of War that will work together to retrieve... Read more »

Known as ASTERIS, the AI network removes noise from images to reveal features a full magnitude fainter than before. The post AI... Read more »

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In laboratory experiments... Read more »

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long,... Read more »

The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above.... Read more »

March opens with a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Our guide will help you make the most of it. The post Dawn Delight:... Read more »

March opens with a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Our guide will help you make the most of it. The post Dawn Delight:... Read more »

March opens with a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Our guide will help you make the most of it. The post Dawn Delight:... Read more »

March opens with a spectacular total lunar eclipse. Our guide will help you make the most of it. The post Dawn Delight:... Read more »

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when heat from tidal... Read more »

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a... Read more »

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for... Read more »

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists... Read more »

This month’s episode showcases the stars and planets visible on March evenings. First up: March 3rd’s predawn a total lunar eclipse! Then... Read more »

This month’s episode showcases the stars and planets visible on March evenings. First up: March 3rd’s predawn a total lunar eclipse! Then... Read more »

The Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project aims to demonstrate the carbothermal reduction of lunar regolith to produce oxygen on the Moon's South... Read more »

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2... Read more »

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons... Read more »

Jupiter forms a T with the Moon, Pollux, and Castor on Friday February 27th. Low in the western twilight, Saturn and Venus... Read more »

Jupiter forms a T with the Moon, Pollux, and Castor on Friday February 27th. Low in the western twilight, Saturn and Venus... Read more »

Jupiter forms a T with the Moon, Pollux, and Castor on Friday February 27th. Low in the western twilight, Saturn and Venus... Read more »

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with the people behind "Project Hail Mary" and the audience during a panel about the... Read more »

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out... Read more »

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-12 Pilot Jack Hathaway enters the International Space Station after docking aboard the Dragon spacecraft to join Expedition... Read more »

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive... Read more »

A total lunar eclipse is centred on the mid-Pacific 3 March, visible to observers in New Zealand and sweeping eastern Australia and... Read more »

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one... Read more »

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and... Read more »

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields... Read more »

The Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project, part of the NASA Science Activation program, aims to measurably enhance student STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,... Read more »

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on... Read more »

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and... Read more »

A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past.... Read more »

For the first time, scientists have mapped Uranus’s upper atmosphere in three dimensions, tracking temperatures and charged particles up to 5,000 kilometers... Read more »

Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely... Read more »

The solar cycle has ramped up, and it's a great time to photograph this captivating target. The post Solar Photography: Catch the... Read more »

Your pretty pictures can contain valuable information. The post Science with Astrophotography appeared first on Sky & Telescope.... Read more »

Deep-sky astrophotography is rapidly evolving, and in some ways, the future is already here. The post The Future of Deep-Sky Astrophotography appeared... Read more »

Taking special care of the stars in your astrophoto will make the entire image shine. The post Star Power: Stellar Images with... Read more »

Panoramic mosaics can show far more than a single image ever can. The post Sewing Up Nightscapes appeared first on Sky &... Read more »

Latest-generation CMOS cameras make astrophotography easier than ever. The post Live-Stacking the Deep Sky appeared first on Sky & Telescope.... Read more »

Different filters help reveal the chemistry of the universe. The post Astro-Imaging: Palettes of the Deep Sky appeared first on Sky &... Read more »

NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on... Read more »

Three of the five naked-eye planets emerge in the fading afterglow of sunset. The first-quarter Moon Tuesday passes as close to straight... Read more »

Three of the five naked-eye planets emerge in the fading afterglow of sunset. The first-quarter Moon Tuesday passes as close to straight... Read more »

Three of the five naked-eye planets emerge in the fading afterglow of sunset. The first-quarter Moon Tuesday passes as close to straight... Read more »

This image of lysozyme crystals grown aboard the International Space Station was taken after the crystals returned to Earth in April 2024.... Read more »

On February 18th, the willowy crescent has a close shave with Mercury, so close that it occults the planet from some U.S.... Read more »

On February 18th, the willowy crescent has a close shave with Mercury, so close that it occults the planet from some U.S.... Read more »

On February 18th, the willowy crescent has a close shave with Mercury, so close that it occults the planet from some U.S.... Read more »

Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel in... Read more »

Master the basics of the most popular astronomical image-processing software. The post Astrophotography: Primer for PixInsight appeared first on Sky & Telescope.... Read more »

Here’s all you need to know to help measure the size of Earth’s shadow during the next lunar eclipse. The post Gauge... Read more »

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting... Read more »

Here's how you can contribute to the science of astronomy. The post Photometry: Measuring the Stars appeared first on Sky & Telescope.... Read more »

Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's largest... Read more »

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near... Read more »

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos... Read more »

After a recent explosive outburst, Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is bright enough to see in a medium-sized telescope. The post Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as... Read more »

After a recent explosive outburst, Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is bright enough to see in a medium-sized telescope. The post Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as... Read more »

After a recent explosive outburst, Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is bright enough to see in a medium-sized telescope. The post Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as... Read more »

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it... Read more »

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red... Read more »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station... Read more »

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like... Read more »

Three planets await you in the western twilight, though low Venus is a toughie. The crescent Moon passes them and, for the... Read more »

Three planets await you in the western twilight, though low Venus is a toughie. The crescent Moon passes them and, for the... Read more »

Three planets await you in the western twilight, though low Venus is a toughie. The crescent Moon passes them and, for the... Read more »

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in... Read more »

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the... Read more »

Astrophotography with remotely operated telescopes is easier than you might think. The post Astro-Imaging from a Distance: A Remote Experience appeared first... Read more »

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by... Read more »

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than... Read more »

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars.... Read more »

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove of organic... Read more »

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew members – Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, and ESA (European... Read more »

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known... Read more »

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in... Read more »

Here’s some crystal-clear advice for you Valentine’s Day travellers this February. Head for the outer Solar System, where it is a jewellery-lover’s... Read more »

A pair of CubeSats designed by college students from around the world is deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital... Read more »

Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to... Read more »

The New York metropolitan area was showing the effects of a prolonged cold spell in late January 2026. During a stretch of... Read more »

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can... Read more »

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought... Read more »

Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 recorded radiation levels so extreme they baffled scientists for nearly 40 years. New research suggests... Read more »

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to anchor our galaxy,... Read more »

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash toward the upper middle —... Read more »

The Winter Hexagon encompasses the brightest winter stars. Near Orion, the Big Dog prances and the Hare crouches. And the moonless dark... Read more »

The Winter Hexagon encompasses the brightest winter stars. Near Orion, the Big Dog prances and the Hare crouches. And the moonless dark... Read more »

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model,... Read more »

What does a welder do? A welder uses tools that join two or more parts through forces such as heat or pressure.... Read more »

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away, features concentric rings of... Read more »

A distant Kreutz comet heading our way may grow a glorious tail in April. The post New Kreutz Comet C/2026 A1 May... Read more »

A distant Kreutz comet heading our way may grow a glorious tail in April. The post New Kreutz Comet C/2026 A1 May... Read more »

The Varda Space Industries W-5 capsule returned to Earth in Koonibba in South Australia on Jan. 29, 2026, with the protection of... Read more »

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher in the early... 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 »