Space

The shortlisted images of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition have been announced by the…

Editor’s note: This article was corrected at 07:43 EDT on July 2 with news that the mission has…

After Americans declared independence on July 4, 1776, a waning gibbous moon rose in the night sky. To…

Heads up aurora chasers! The sun has been very busy. After unleashing an X1.1 solar flare on June…

A map showing where path of totality for the 2026 total solar eclipse. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio NASA…

NASA’s deep space images often feel like both science and art. But NASA’s latest images are art in…

Earth has one Moon, but it does not travel entirely alone. A small asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa loops along…

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have taken a new look at Earth’s violent beginnings and found that…

Hot Jupiters are some of the most extreme planets in the universe, blazing gas giants like Jupiter or…

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…

In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1,…

Theoretically, black holes emerged from the principles of Albert Einstein’s general relativity (gravity as distortions of spacetime), but…

These are among the best space images we’ve ever seen. The world’s biggest astro-imaging competition has just released its shortlisted photos