Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History
Moon rocks returned from a rarely sampled region are offering a new view of the Solar System’s turbulent…
3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera Captures Over Half a Million Galaxies
Rubin Looks Deep Into a Famous Cosmic Field A new image from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s…
On this day in space! Aug. 2, 1971: Apollo 15 makes 1st-ever televised liftoff from the moon
On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott…
There May Be 170 Million Black Holes Lurking in The Milky Way’s Graveyard : ScienceAlert
Black holes are sneaky. Unless they light up their surroundings with a rare feeding frenzy, it’s very difficult…
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…
Astronaut Shares Breathtaking View Of Milky Way From Space
Astronaut Don Pettit has shared one of his favourite photographs captured during his latest mission to the International…
SpaceX veteran on how rocket tech could solve Earth’s water crisis
Spacecraft have to survive launch, operate flawlessly in orbit, and return safely to Earth. Jonathan Criss spent over…
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…
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…
SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon this week
A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar…
It’s Exactly A Year Until The ‘Eclipse Of The Century’
Topline On Aug. 2, 2027, the longest total solar eclipse visible from land this century will sweep across…