NASA Reveals Four Cosmic Masterpieces for America’s 250th Birthday
In Cassiopeia A, X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown along with an infrared image from NASA’s…
And Expert Explains How To See Tonight’s Surprise Aurora Australis In Your City
THE RUNDOWN Experts are forecasting a G2 geomagnetic storm hitting Earth on Friday, July 3, 2026, around 5:50pm…
NASA Struggles to Save ‘Multitool’ Orbital Satellite From a Fiery Death
NASA suspended all scientific activity onboard its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory this past February, in the hopes of…
“Beyond the limit”: one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky
Press Release 1 July 2026 A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to…
12 billion years old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be older than the solar system
3I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately…
Strange beads of light on Ganymede look strikingly like Earth’s auroras
Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and…
This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
How to See the Giant Asteroid That Will Pass by Earth This Weekend
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that this weekend, asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will make its closest approach…
Seismic evidence for a melt-depleted lower crust and transcrustal magmatism on Mars
Selection of the seismic velocity model The literature presents a wide range of seismic velocity models for the…
Black hole collision lets scientists probe the event horizon for the first time
Black holes do their most important work in hiding. The boundary that defines them, the event horizon, seals…
Hubble Delivers Beautiful Photo of a Glowing Cosmic Chandelier
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong and delivering unbelievably beautiful deep-space images. The latest Hubble…