A lonely monkey to the dark side of the Moon: Nine of the most striking images of 2026 so far
A photo taken in February at the Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Japan, of Punch, a baby Japanese…
Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
A sonic boom heard throughout the northeastern United States last week was caused by a meteor, NASA confirmed…
How Lunar Strike builds a Moon from NASA data, ESA imagery and photogrammetry
Cognition’s creative director Brian Pope doesn’t lead with worldbuilding or even technology, whether that’s the use of Unreal…
Catching Up With Perseverance on Mars
Episode description: NASA’s robotic explorers are looking for signs of ancient life on Mars. In its five…
Almost all the gold on Earth — every wedding ring, every coin, every gram in every bank vault — was forged in the collision of dead stars billions of years ago, in events so violent that a single one can produce hundreds of Earth-masses of gold, and the heavy elements were then scattered across the galaxy before our sun was even born
On 17 August 2017, two neutron stars in a galaxy called NGC 4993, about 130 million light-years from…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
Most people would say Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that…
Student-powered ‘moon’ rovers put to the test photo of the day for June 2, 2026
A team navigates an obstacle course on an Earth-bound rover as part of NASA’s 2026 Human Exploration Rover…
‘Hot Jupiter’ winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic fields around planets beyond the solar system, and they did…
Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim
The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source…
NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by…