On this page you’ll find news articles about space and astronomy from across the web.
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NASA renames space observatory in honor of moon telescope visionary George Carruthers
A forthcoming telescope that will observe Earth from space has been renamed in honor of George R. Carruthers, a visionary scientist who... Read more » - ●An Egyptian astrophotographer captured this awe inspiring image of the scary Shark nebula in the constellation of Cephus lurking above Egypt's Kottamia... Read more »
- ●Researchers confirmed that the distant galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope are, indeed, perfectly compatible with our modern understanding of... Read more »
- ●Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is tantalizing to spot through a telescope, but what would it look like up close?... Read more »
- ●On Monday (Jan. 30), the moon will pass in front of Mars from the perspective of Earth in what's known as an... Read more »
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Astronomers Find 25 Fast Radio Bursts That Repeat on a Regular BasisResearchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration have announced the discovery of 25 new repeating FRBs, almost doubling the number of known events! The... Read more »
- ●Molecular Clouds Have Long Lives By Constantly Reassembling ThemselvesAstronomers have recently discovered that giant clouds of molecular hydrogen, the birthplace of stars, can live for tens of millions of years... Read more »
- ●Nuclear Rocket In 2027, JWST Problems, Starship WDRStarship completes its wet-dress rehearsal, another problem for Webb, a nuclear rocket test is coming, and more cool NIAC grants. Starship Wet... Read more »
- Astronomers See Flashes on the Sun That Could be a Sign of an Upcoming FlareUsing data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, scientists have discovered new clues that could help predict when and where the next solar... Read more »
- A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.... Read more »
- A spectacular new image shows the Soul Nebula infused with red light, highlighting a tadpole-like dense region of gas.... Read more »
Moon occults Mars January 30-31On the night of January 30-31, the waxing gibbous moon occults Mars. Details here for how to see if it's visible from... Read more »
- The moon’s terminator line divides night and dayThe moon’s terminator line divides day and night on the moon. As we see it from Earth, it marks the line of... Read more »
- Webb observes Chariklo’s rings during occultationNASA's Webb telescope took its 1st look at tiny asteroid Chariklo's rings, showing they contain water ice. Webb used a stellar occultation... Read more »
- SpaceX plans to launch another set of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit on Monday (Jan. 30), and you can watch the... Read more »
- Discover how gluons bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons and explore the form weird form of matter in which they... Read more »
- It's not every day you watch a rocket streak into space over Virginia's Eastern Shore, acing its first-ever liftoff from American soil.... Read more »
- Sun activity: Tick, tick, tickSun activity for January 29, 2023S: Sun activity is low. We watch a prominence dance while waiting to see if old regions... Read more »
- Moon near Mars January 30 and 31Watch for the moon near Mars from dusk until around 3 a.m. local time on the nights of January 30 and 31,... Read more »
- Does Failing to Detect Aliens Mean We’ll Never Be Contacted?In a recent paper submitted to The Astronomical Journal in November 2022, a scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne... Read more »
- A Martian Meteorite Contains Organic Compounds. The Raw Ingredients for Life?In a recent study published in Sciences Advances, an international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich examined the... Read more »
- Beautiful New Hubble Photo Shows Hot, Young Variable Stars in the Orion NebulaHere’s another striking image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. These billows of blue and red show a detailed look at a... Read more »
- January’s deep sky: Nebulae, clusters and moreEnjoy these January photos of the deep sky, including the majestic Thor's Helmet, taken by members of the EarthSky community. The post... Read more »
- It’s Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star’s Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? YikesDetecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we’ve found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to find them... Read more »
- NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in SpaceNASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by 2027. The... Read more »
- Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return MissionNow that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission to retrieve,... Read more »
Volcano-like rupture could have caused magnetar slowdownIn October 2020, a highly magnetic neutron star called SGR 1935+2154 abruptly began spinning more slowly. Astrophysicist now show the magnetar's rotational... Read more »- Starry tail tells the tale of dwarf galaxy evolutionA giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates... Read more »
- Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth's volatile chemicalsBy analyzing meteorites, researchers have uncovered the likely far-flung origin of Earth's volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of... Read more »
Oklahoma Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
Students from Choctaw Nation Head Start, Jones Academy Elementary, and seven area public schools in Durant, Oklahoma, will have an opportunity this... Read more »- Como parte de su empeño por proporcionar más recursos e información a nuevos públicos, la NASA ha lanzado nuevas páginas web con... Read more »
See Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) Dash Between Big and Little DippersForget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from... Read more »- See Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) Dash Between Big and Little DippersForget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from... Read more »
- See Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) Dash Between Big and Little DippersForget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from... Read more »
- See Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) Dash Between Big and Little DippersForget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from... Read more »
- As part of its effort to provide more resources and information to new audiences, NASA has launched new webpages featuring aeronautics information... Read more »
Iceberg larger than London breaks off Brunt
Video: 00:04:25 An iceberg around the size of Greater London broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf due to a natural process called... Read more »
- The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.... Read more »
- New Milky Way survey reveals billions of objectsAstronomers at NOIRLab, using the Dark Energy Camera in Chile, have released a new Milky Way survey showing billions of objects in... Read more »
- What is the Milky Way? It’s our home galaxyWhen someone says "Milky Way," do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in... Read more »
- VideoStarship aced a critical fueling test this weekSpaceX's Starship completed a milestone fueling test this week: 10 million pounds (4.5 million kg) or so of liquid fuels loaded into... Read more »
Asteroid 2023 BU just passed within a few thousand miles of Earth
Discovered less than a week ago, the truck-sized asteroid skimmed much closer to Earth’s surface than most satellites.... Read more »- Our glowing green visitor remains in the spotlight while the Moon passes in front of Mars and Mercury stands farthest from the... Read more »
- On Jan. 27, 1967, a fire swept through the Apollo 1 Command Module during a launch rehearsal test, tragically killing the three... Read more »
- Comet 2022 E3 ZTF closest to Earth February 1 and 2The green comet - Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) - will be closest to Earth on February 1 and 2. It's prime time... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 27 – February 5Comet ZTF is at its best this week — but every night moonlight encroaches on the scene until a later and later... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 27 – February 5Comet ZTF is at its best this week — but every night moonlight encroaches on the scene until a later and later... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 27 – February 5Comet ZTF is at its best this week — but every night moonlight encroaches on the scene until a later and later... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 27 – February 5Comet ZTF is at its best this week — but every night moonlight encroaches on the scene until a later and later... Read more »
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