APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great…
A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
Image of the Day for August 3, 2026 The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost…
The 1st ‘three-headed’ asteroid photo of the day for Aug. 3, 2026
A collage of images of asteroid (44) Nysa, believed to be the first-known asteroid in our solar system…
On this day in space! Aug. 3, 2004: NASA launches MESSENGER spacecraft to orbit Mercury
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet…
The largest moon in the Solar System is bigger than Mercury and hides an ocean beneath its icy surface |
When people think about moons, they usually picture small rocky companions circling much larger planets. Ganymede does not…
Astronomers watch a black hole’s feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe the violent outflow of material from a distant…
Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign – BBC
Sir Brian May and New Order join Jodrell Bank Observatory campaign BBCArtists, writers and scientists urge UK government to…
AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)
Martin Halliwell is a Partner at NewSpace Capital, one of the world’s first private equity firms devoted exclusively…
Ton of space junk now falling to Earth each week: Expert as metal ring lands in Kenya
A rising number of satellites has led to more space debris falling to Earth, with Polish Space Agency’s…
A SpaceX rocket will slam into the moon on Wednesday, and astronomers will be watching closely
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, telescopes around the world will try to capture something never seen…
We have sharper maps of Mars than of most of Earth’s deep ocean floor, and the little of it we have reached rewrote biology: in 1977 a submersible found thriving life around hot vents in total darkness, fed by chemistry rather than sunlight
The least-known place on Earth is not some remote patch of desert or ice. It is most of…
Starwatch: Mercury to reach farthest point from the sun | Astronomy
This week offers one of the better opportunities of the year to catch a glimpse of the solar…