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C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has broken into three distinct pieces following its closest approach to the sun on Oct. 8.... Read more »

New evidence suggests the standard model of cosmology is wrong, but the results could resolve the long-standing Hubble Tension problem in modern... Read more »

The Pleiades (M45) is arguably the most famous star cluster in the sky. Known as the Seven Sisters, or Subaru in Japan,... Read more »

Every community has a tourist attraction everyone knows about but locals never visit. Perhaps it’s because it’s always there and can be... Read more »

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine as geomagnetic storm conditions could continue tonight.... Read more »

Perseverance Encounters a Possible Meteorite Written by Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University Oct. 1, 2025 During the rover’s recent investigation... Read more »

As the moon becomes the center of the new space race, the United States is looking for new ways to track spacecraft... Read more »

Two of the biggest franchises go head-to-head with these unique Lego sets — From cinematic history to lines of Lego, Star Wars... Read more »

BioLite continues to light up our world with the USB-C chargeable, IPX4-rated Dash 450.... Read more »

"This is one of my favourite galaxies for testing new equipment."... Read more »

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life... Read more »

Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just corroding metal for... Read more »

Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction.... Read more »

Astronomers have deployed a survey with the most memorable and tasty acronym in astrophysics - SPAM, The Search for Protoplanets with Aperture... Read more »

The European Space Agency has completed the Orion service module for NASA's Artemis 4 mission to the moon, which was saved from... Read more »

On May 30, 1971, Mariner 9 launched, setting off on its mission to Mars. On Nov. 13, 167 days later, it entered... 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 »

A new study argues that the Universe is decelerating, based on a correlation between the brightness of Type-Ia supernovae and the age... Read more »

NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an... Read more »

As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon... Read more »

Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time... Read more »

The launch helped strengthen Europe's ambitions in climate monitoring, disaster response and maritime security.... Read more »

A new international study proposes how astronomers could use future improved images of black hole shadows to test alternative theories of gravity.... Read more »

Visible planets and night sky guide. Vivid colors exploded across the sky on Tuesday and Wednesday as auroras dipped into southern U.S.... Read more »

The 100AZ is our best telescope for beginners and kids, with a host of user-friendly features that make viewing the moon and... Read more »

The ESCAPADE mission will launch twin probes to study Mars' magnetic environment. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, November 13. Watch here.... Read more »

Parts of Earth's magnetic field work in reverse compared to what long-standing models predict, new research suggests.... Read more »

Sun news November 13, 2025: Auroras glowed across mid-latitudes again last night as a weaker CME arrival brough more geomagnetic storming. The... Read more »

Tucana the Toucan is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that's a cinch to spot. Just look for our little satellite galaxy:... Read more »

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These... Read more »

Scientists have discovered new tree-dwelling toads in the mountain forests of Tanzania, Africa, that give birth to live young toadlets. The post... Read more »

Blair MacDonald, taken from Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia, Canada The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) straddles the border of constellations Cepheus and Cygnus... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  November 12: Catch Mercury and Mars The Moon lies... Read more »

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over... Read more »

Brie Larson and Benny Safdie join the original vocal cast for this cosmic Super Mario Brothers sequel.... Read more »

Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that they shouldn't even... Read more »

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a continued alert for the possibility of a geomagnetic storm of either G3 class... Read more »

ESA’s Euclid space telescope is revealing the patterns of galaxy evolution of millions of galaxies across cosmic time. Scientists from the Max... Read more »

Rocket Lab has delayed the first launch of its medium-lift Neutron rocket to 2026, founder and CEO Peter Beck said during a... Read more »

Last night's aurora painted the sky in reds, greens and even oranges. It's expected to return tonight! The post Double Solar Eruptions... Read more »

Last night's aurora painted the sky in reds, greens and even oranges. It's expected to return tonight! The post Double Solar Eruptions... Read more »

Last night's aurora painted the sky in reds, greens and even oranges. It's expected to return tonight! The post Double Solar Eruptions... Read more »

Last night's aurora painted the sky in reds, greens and even oranges. It's expected to return tonight! The post Double Solar Eruptions... Read more »

After spending four years converting a massive cargo ferry into a rocket catching ship, Blue Origin scrapped the entire vessel and started... Read more »

Billions of years ago, a rogue planet eight times more massive than Jupiter tore through our Solar System, passing closer to the... Read more »

When a chunk of SpaceX rocket debris crashed into a Polish warehouse this year, it exposed a troubling reality, that the international... Read more »

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million... Read more »

New observations from the Virtual Telescope Project reveal 3I/ATLAS's sharply defined ion tail, highlighting increased activity as the interstellar comet moves through... Read more »

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection could spark severe geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.... Read more »

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is an eruption of gas and plasma from the Sun. Solar physicists record a number of them... Read more »

"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the... Read more »

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted an explosive burst of material thrown out... Read more »

A severe geomagnetic storm during a period of heightened solar activity has delated Blue Origin's second-ever launch of its New Glenn rocket,... Read more »

Does the APS-C sensor at the heart of the compact Nikon Z50 II punch above its weight when it comes to shooting... Read more »

Saturn's as edgy as it'll get for the next 13 years. With special visual treats in store, here's what to keep eyes... Read more »

Saturn's as edgy as it'll get for the next 13 years. With special visual treats in store, here's what to keep eyes... Read more »

Saturn's as edgy as it'll get for the next 13 years. With special visual treats in store, here's what to keep eyes... Read more »

Saturn's as edgy as it'll get for the next 13 years. With special visual treats in store, here's what to keep eyes... Read more »

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission launched March 2, 2004, on a 4-billion-mile (6.4 billion kilometers) path to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission... Read more »

The dome of the Gemini North telescope can be seen on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, with shimmering star trails and... Read more »

Stargazers saw vivid reds and greens paint the sky the night of November 11, 2025, as auroras dipped into southern-US latitudes and... Read more »

Astronauts lose significant amounts of muscle mass during any prolonged stay in space. Despite spending 2-3 hours a day exercising in an... Read more »

Vivid auroras lit up skies across North America and Europe as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest this solar... Read more »

After a tense wait, it's finally been confirmed that Alien: Earth will return to our TV screens with more horrors in season... Read more »

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Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist, conservationist and peace advocate, died On October 1, 2025. She was 91 years old. The post Jane... Read more »

The subsurface ocean on Enceladus is stable enough for life, a new study of data from the Cassini mission suggests. Heat flow... Read more »

Travelling up from Mars’s equator towards its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region marked... Read more »

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a young star... Read more »

"This study changes how we see the Pleiades — not just seven bright stars, but thousands of long-lost siblings scattered across the... Read more »

Video: 00:03:42 The year 2025 marked three decades of satellite navigation in Europe. To celebrate this milestone, on 2 September, the European... Read more »

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  November 11: Jupiter’s turn to stand still Io and... Read more »

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first... Read more »

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors caught two black holes colliding 7 billion light years away, both spinning at nearly the speed of... Read more »

India took another step toward its first-ever human spaceflight last week, successfully testing the parachute system for its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule.... Read more »

When astronomers detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, it raised a critical question, ‘could this world's atmosphere even... Read more »

NASA's plans for a permanent lunar base face the threat of up to 23,000 micrometeoroid impacts per year travelling at speeds of... Read more »

A congressional letter is putting NASA on blast.... Read more »

Google's Project Suncatcher is fascinating solution to AI's massive energy demands…. building data centres in space powered directly by the solar power.... Read more »

Mars and Mercury will appear close to one another in the southwestern sky on Nov. 12.... Read more »

"Every single subframe I take (prior to stacking) now contains at least one, and usually more than one satellite streak."... Read more »

Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky - climate modeling even more so. But their slowing increasing ability to predict what the natural world... Read more »

A European Mars orbiter spotted barcode-like dust streaks on the slopes of Apollinaris Mons, revealing how tiny avalanches help drive the Red... Read more »

The name's Villeneuve… Denis Villeneuve. As the acclaimed director takes the helm for the next James Bond movie, we're looking back at... Read more »

"I felt like it was time to give the Gemini program its due. It was an opportunity not to be missed."... Read more »

We put the Kenko VC Smart Cellarto 10x30 WP through their paces to find out if these image-stabilized smart binoculars live up... Read more »

This quiz explores the world's most powerful telescopes and observatories — on Earth and beyond.... Read more »

This image captures Comet Lemmon in dramatic fashion, its bright coma and faint tail arcing across the starfield.... Read more »

Quantum gravity seeks to unify the theory of general relativity with quantum physics to describe how gravity works at very small scales.... Read more »

The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line.... Read more »

Lightweight, image stabilized and with 16x magnification, these Fujifilm binoculars are a must-have for outdoor stargazing.... Read more »

Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the Moon in over half a century.... Read more »

Astronomers have created the 1st 3D temperature map of a distant exoplanet. The planet, WASP-18b, is a scorching ultra-hot Jupiter 400 light-years... Read more »

China's decision to delay the return of its Shenzhou 20 astronauts due to a possible space debris impact has led to discussion... Read more »

Video: 00:12:53 Meet John McFall – Paralympian, medical doctor and member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve. As part of ESA’s groundbreaking FLY initiative,... Read more »

SpaceX launched 29 of its Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday night (Nov. 10). It was the record-breaking... Read more »

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act... Read more »

Aboard China's space station, astronauts have begun using a new hot air oven delivered by Shenzhou XXI to prepare freshly baked dishes,... Read more »

As stars age, they expand. That’s bad news for planets orbiting close to their stars, according to a new study published in... Read more »

Insects have been travelling to space since 1947, but now they might become dinner for astronauts on missions to the Moon and... Read more »

Two black hole collisions detected just a month apart last autumn are challenging our understanding of how they form. One merger features... Read more »

An Italian producer has announced plans for the first western film to launch a filmmaker into low-Earth orbit to shoot key scenes.... Read more »

Sky & Telescope's Chile tour offered magnificent views of the southern sky, professional observatories, and one of the world’s most remarkable deserts.... Read more »

A mind-boggling lack of encryption allowed researchers to eavesdrop on satellite links and intercept vast quantities of private communications, including those by... Read more »

Author Adam Christopher takes us to Mustafar and beyond in the chilling new sci-fi story "Star Wars: Master of Evil."... Read more »

Four Chinese rockets launched over the weekend, taking the nation's total for 2025 to a record-breaking 72 orbital missions.... Read more »

Scientists just 3D printed human muscle tissue in microgravity conditions. The ultimate goal is to make organs in space.... Read more »

A new "exosuit" was put through its paces with analog astronauts in Australia. The research team would love to try the suit... Read more »

Galactic Energy's Ceres-1 rocket suffered a failure of its upper stage during a launch on Sunday (Nov. 9), leading to the loss... Read more »

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Indiana as two incoming coronal mass ejections could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.... Read more »

New lab experiments suggest that water may not be a rare visitor delivered by chance but rather a fundamental ingredient woven into... Read more »

I took my Canon EOS Rebel T3i and headed to the fields to see whether the 14-year-old camera could grab great photos... Read more »

"Solar Orbiter can now provide this missing piece of the puzzle."... Read more »

The perfect playset for kids wanting to jet off into space, the Lego City Modular Galactic Spaceship is a fun, detailed build.... Read more »

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The... Read more »

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires... Read more »

From Cassini’s awe-inspiring flybys to cutting-edge simulations, scientists are decoding the secrets of Enceladus’s geysers. Supercomputer models show the icy moon’s plumes... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The... Read more »

New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent... Read more »

NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed surprising heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, showing the moon releases energy from both ends. This balance... Read more »

The interstellar comet: Can you see it in your scope? Maybe you can, starting late this week as Comet 3I/ATLAS emerges from... Read more »

The interstellar comet: Can you see it in your scope? Maybe you can, starting late this week as Comet 3I/ATLAS emerges from... Read more »

The interstellar comet: Can you see it in your scope? Maybe you can, starting late this week as Comet 3I/ATLAS emerges from... Read more »

The interstellar comet: Can you see it in your scope? Maybe you can, starting late this week as Comet 3I/ATLAS emerges from... Read more »

Researchers are using black hole shadows to challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity. With new simulations and future ultra-sharp telescope images, they may... Read more »

Week in images: 03-07 November 2025 Discover our week through the lens... Read more »

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a flare 30... Read more »

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed stable, suggesting plasma instabilities aren’t responsible... Read more »

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By... Read more »

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters... Read more »

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening, marking a... Read more »

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS... Read more »

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could... Read more »

Astronomers have found that star-forming galaxies in the early universe were far messier than modern-day disk galaxies. The post Early Galaxies Were... Read more »

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion... Read more »

The fast spin of small near-Earth asteroids suggests scientists need to revise their ideas about what holds these rocky bodies together. The... Read more »

Astronomers observed a massive, multi-temperature plasma eruption from a young Sun-like star, revealing how early solar explosions could shape planets. These fierce... Read more »

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery... Read more »

Researchers uncovered that trace compounds like nickel and urea may have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for millions of years. Experiments mimicking early Earth... Read more »

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels... Read more »

In this month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast, we’ll watch two sets of shooting stars, spot some bright planets, point out a few... Read more »

In this month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast, we’ll watch two sets of shooting stars, spot some bright planets, point out a few... Read more »

In this month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast, we’ll watch two sets of shooting stars, spot some bright planets, point out a few... Read more »

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows... Read more »

Saturn is in excellent view all evening. In a telescope its rings look like a thin needle piercing the big yellow globe.... Read more »

Saturn is in excellent view all evening. In a telescope its rings look like a thin needle piercing the big yellow globe.... Read more »

Saturn is in excellent view all evening. In a telescope its rings look like a thin needle piercing the big yellow globe.... Read more »

Saturn is in excellent view all evening. In a telescope its rings look like a thin needle piercing the big yellow globe.... Read more »

Witches, bats, ghosts and serpents – do you dare to visit our spooky gallery this Halloween?!... Read more »

The Taurid meteor shower, born from Comet Encke, delights skywatchers but may conceal hidden risks. Research led by Mark Boslough examines potential... Read more »

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations... Read more »

A new study has found that the 260-day ritual calendar is the key to understanding how the Maya predicted solar eclipses. The... Read more »

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The... Read more »

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from Cambridge studied over 250 galaxies and... Read more »

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window into the universe’s... Read more »

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries... Read more »

An alien comet will soon depart from the Sun's glare and enter the morning sky. It may be even brighter than expected,... Read more »

An alien comet will soon depart from the Sun's glare and enter the morning sky. It may be even brighter than expected,... Read more »

An alien comet will soon depart from the Sun's glare and enter the morning sky. It may be even brighter than expected,... Read more »

An alien comet will soon depart from the Sun's glare and enter the morning sky. It may be even brighter than expected,... Read more »

Don't miss the chance to see Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as it races towards its closest approach of the Sun on 8... Read more »

Tohoku University researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors more sensitive by connecting superconducting qubits in optimized network patterns. These... Read more »

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from the dawn of the universe.... Read more »

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha b, located... Read more »

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image blurring in NASA’s... Read more »

Researchers have directly observed torsional Alfvén waves twisting through the Sun’s corona — magnetic waves first predicted over 80 years ago. Captured... Read more »

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million years... Read more »

The latest ESA/Hubble image highlights the spiral galaxy NGC 3370, located nearly 90 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.... Read more »

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device on a single... Read more »

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter. Studying these signals, especially from... Read more »

The crescent Moon returns and waxes to first quarter. Two binocular comets are on the way out. And Arcturus is once again... Read more »

The crescent Moon returns and waxes to first quarter. Two binocular comets are on the way out. And Arcturus is once again... Read more »

The crescent Moon returns and waxes to first quarter. Two binocular comets are on the way out. And Arcturus is once again... Read more »

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its existence. Using... Read more »

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by... Read more »

Engineers have completed the construction of ESA’s Plato spacecraft — the mission designed to search for Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars —... Read more »

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have uncovered a colossal bridge... Read more »

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a dramatic rise in... Read more »

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind... Read more »

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart... Read more »

After checking out the two binocular comets right after dark this week, catch a double shadow transit on Jupiter and the late-night... Read more »

After checking out the two binocular comets right after dark this week, catch a double shadow transit on Jupiter and the late-night... Read more »

After checking out the two binocular comets right after dark this week, catch a double shadow transit on Jupiter and the late-night... Read more »

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to... Read more »

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, breaking the “like dissolves like”... Read more »

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest-changing radio... Read more »

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping theories of how Earth gained its... Read more »

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically... Read more »

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated... Read more »

Circumstances are ideal for watching debris from Halley's Comet set the morning sky ablaze. The post Dip a Toe in the Orionid... Read more »

Circumstances are ideal for watching debris from Halley's Comet set the morning sky ablaze. The post Dip a Toe in the Orionid... Read more »

Circumstances are ideal for watching debris from Halley's Comet set the morning sky ablaze. The post Dip a Toe in the Orionid... Read more »

Scientists at TU Wien have uncovered that quantum correlations can stabilize time crystals—structures that oscillate in time without an external driver. Contrary... Read more »

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly... Read more »

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in... Read more »

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki University suggests these signals might carry... Read more »

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic... Read more »

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive... Read more »

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but... Read more »

Never caught a double shadow transit on Jupiter? This week offers several chances. Meanwhile, Cassiopeia stands high and the Little Dipper leans... Read more »

Never caught a double shadow transit on Jupiter? This week offers several chances. Meanwhile, Cassiopeia stands high and the Little Dipper leans... Read more »

Never caught a double shadow transit on Jupiter? This week offers several chances. Meanwhile, Cassiopeia stands high and the Little Dipper leans... Read more »

Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next... Read more »

On 6 October the shadow of Titan, Saturn’s giant moon, can be seen crossing Saturn’s creamy cloud tops.... Read more »

It's Harvest Moon week, when the Moon shines low and bright at nightfall for many days running. Along the way it passes... Read more »

It's Harvest Moon week, when the Moon shines low and bright at nightfall for many days running. Along the way it passes... Read more »

After a dearth of bright comets earlier this year, we look forward to an exciting month ahead. The post Two Bright Comets... Read more »

Pegasus is a large, distinctive constellation that’s easy to spot. During October, you can use it — along with Saturn — to... Read more »

by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational... Read more »

NASA and Blue Origin are reopening media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)... Read more »

NASA, along with leaders from global space agencies and government representatives worldwide, convened on Monday to further the implementation of the Artemis... Read more »

A supermoon, and meteor showers from the Draconids and Orionids A supermoon takes over the sky, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through,... Read more »

Since we all have a relationship with the Sun, it is important to learn about how it impacts our lives. NASA’s Heliophysics... Read more »

Since we all have a relationship with the Sun, it is important to learn about how it impacts our lives. NASA’s Heliophysics... Read more »

At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) taking place in Sydney this week, representatives from the United States and Australia gathered to sign... Read more »

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2025 Space Policy Institute 10.21.2025 MSBR Space Business Roundtable 10.15.2025 76th International Astronautical Congress_IAC 9-29-25 2025 Von Braun Memorial Dinner 10.29.25 Space... Read more »

A fight against conventionality has driven cosmologist Stephon Alexander on a groundbreaking journey through theoretical physics. The post Music and Science Unite... Read more »

During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery... Read more »

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nebula LMC N44C.... Read more »

When you think about national park and public land astronomy programs, you might picture remote locations far from city lights. But a... Read more »

The NASA Community College Network (NCCN) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have teamed up to provide an exciting and impactful program... Read more »

The waxing crescent Moon crosses Scorpius on its way to a meetup with Saturn, while the Moon's own sunrise line unveils more... Read more »

This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden sunglint: Lake... Read more »

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric... Read more »

STEM learning ecosystems are intentionally designed, community-wide partnerships that enable all Americans to actively participate in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)... Read more »

There’s a ‘new’ star in the constellation of Centaurus. A nova dramatically appeared on 22 September, discovered by John Seach of Grafton,... Read more »

NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, during the Joint Base Andrews Air Show... Read more »

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from... Read more »

John Seach hit the jackpot, discovering novae in both Centaurus and Sagittarius within a day of each other. The post Australian Astronomer... Read more »

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.... Read more »

On these dark evenings the Perseus Double Cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, await in the northeast. They're only two fist-widths apart.... Read more »

In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to... Read more »

The Milky Way appears above Earth's bright atmospheric glow in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles... Read more »

Titan joins its shadow for a "grand finale" this October. The post Last Call for a Remarkable Titan Shadow Transit appeared first... Read more »

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module's Life Science Glovebox on Aug. 28, 2025.... Read more »

Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. Data from Chandra and other telescopes are helping astronomers delve... Read more »

One of the challenges many teachers face year after year is a sense of working alone. Despite the constant interaction with students... Read more »

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left) and Mark Vande Hei (right) prepare to fly out to a landing zone in the Rocky Mountains... Read more »

See the images that won the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year award. The post Royal Observatory Greenwich / ZWO Astronomy Photographer... Read more »

Ukrainian amateur discovers a bright, new comet now in the evening sky. The post New Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) Pops Out from... Read more »

The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period on Feb. 24,... Read more »

We are pleased to announce that our new Astronomy Now app is live! Since taking ownership of the magazine in July, creating... Read more »

Venus has double close conjunctions with the crescent Moon and Regulus in the dawn next Friday the 19th. Meanwhile, Saturn and Neptune... Read more »

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured newborn stars forming in clouds of dust and gas (colored golden and orange in this image)... Read more »

Dinner is served aboard the International Space Station! One tray features shrimp cocktail on whole grain wheat crackers, while the other holds... Read more »

From left to right, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy... Read more »

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world,"... Read more »

Astronomers have seen tentative evidence for an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e, a rocky planet 40 light years away.... Read more »