Most distant star found to date may not be a lone star at all
The record holder for the most distant star known to date, nicknamed Earendel, is 12.9 billion light-years away.…
Don’t miss Venus line up with Jupiter and Mercury before sunrise on Sept. 1
Jupiter, Venus and Mercury will appear together in the predawn sky on Sept. 1. (Image credit: Created by…
James Webb telescope reveals stunning new secrets of the heart of the butterfly nebula
Space never ceases to amaze us with its hidden wonders, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just…
Try to spot a rare Aurigid meteor as the shower peaks overnight on Aug. 31
Why not try your luck in late August and try to spot a rare Aurigid shooting star as…
Mars unleashes a dust demon — NASA captures it racing toward the rover
In its recent selfie op, the Perseverance rover photographed an unexpected photobomber in Neretva Vallis three miles away:…
Astronomers are baffled: what happened to this star inside a giant gas bubble?
There’s never a dull moment in the cosmos. Just when we think we’ve seen it all, astronomers uncover…
Hawking predicted it — Experts now say time itself will end on this date
Stephen Hawking was right all along. As the universe is currently in constant expansion, moving beyond what humans…
See the original version of ‘Earthrise,’ taken 59 years ago this week — Space photo of the week
QUICK FACTS What it is: The world’s first photo of Earth from the moon Where it is: Lunar…
China launches tiny Mexican satellites in rare North American rocket contract
Mexico has become the second country in North America to send satellites into orbit using a Chinese rocket…
Could you survive HD 189733b, the 927°C world that rains razor-sharp glass?
From afar, HD 189733b glimmers like a tranquil jewel, a sapphire-coloured world suspended in the darkness of space.…
The ESA Restores Communications with JUICE at Venus
The ESA’s JUpiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is on its way to conduct detailed studies of Jupiter and…
Mars has a lumpy interior caused by 4.5-billion-year-old collisions, study shows
An artist’s illustration of the lumps within Mars’ mantle (Image source: NASA and JPL-Caltech; cropped) Using data from…