Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: Andromeda galaxy (M31) Where it is: 2.5 million light-years away, in the constellation…
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have conclusively identified a source in the Milky Way that can accelerate protons to some of the…
As Trump rolls back endangered species protection, experts say Canadian wildlife is also at risk
Canadian conservationists and wildlife experts are raising alarm after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration moved in July to…
Does asteroid Nysa have 3 lobes and a moon?
We’ve seen many asteroids that are made from 2 bodies stuck together, but asteroid Nysa might be the…
Icelandic coast guards seize Paul Watson Foundation anti-whaling ship and its 21 crew
LONDON (AP) — Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by…
There Are 2 Eclipses This August. Here’s How to See Them
The 2026 astronomical calendar features only four eclipses. But August is a bounty of riches, with two set…
Grain-sized fossils have solved a 113-million-year-old mystery, linking volcanic carbon dioxide to one of the ocean’s largest plankton extinctions
Tiny fossils have helped scientists crack a Cretaceous cold case. Using chemical signals preserved in microscopic shells, Northwestern…
Ganymede is a moon, yet it is larger than the planet Mercury, may contain more water than exists on Earth’s surface, and even generates its own magnetic field, making it less like a conventional moon than a full-sized world that happens to orbit Jupiter.
Calling Ganymede a moon is correct, but it does very little to prepare us for what the object…
Total solar eclipse to darken Spain for 1st time in a century
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain…
Celestron Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian review
The excitement of the new moon mission has potentially helped create a new generation of stargazers, just like…
The Invasion of the Sea Lamprey: How One Fish Transformed the Great Lakes Ecosystem by 1938 | World News
Petromyzon marinus (lamprey) mouth. Credits – Wikimedia Commons On November 8, 1921, a commercial fisherman pulling nets near…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…