South Africa Deploys AI to Automate Telescope Operations and Space Discovery
South Africa’s SAAO and the U.K.’s Hartree Centre launched the “Intelligent Observatory” program.
The project will…
Astronomy experiences during Glasnost & Perestroika
Some fond memories from my trips to Soviet observatories By Tony Moffat At 83 years, I am still…
Newly Discovered Comet Could Appear During the Day—If It’s Not Destroyed First
A recently discovered comet is plunging toward a fateful encounter with the Sun, which will determine whether it…
California Startup Wants to Send Thousands of Mirrors to Orbit For the Dumbest Reason Ever
A new startup has come up with a way to sell sunlight on demand, proposing a constellation of…
Astronomers have discovered a collision between two neutron stars in a small galaxy
ⓘ Mikkehouse – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a neutron star. Recently, astronomers have discovered a collision between…
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still…
How to witness Venus and Saturn conjunction?
Footage released by NASA on Wednesday reveals aurora ribbons shimmering above Earth, while a thin orange line of…
Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
Can you spot the planets shining in our March night skies?
The phases of the Moon for March 2026, with each image produced with data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…
A lunar eclipse brings a blood moon, in photos
The full moon in March, sometimes called the worm moon, coincides with a lunar eclipse that brings a…
Space travel is very, very bad for your health.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to…
Astronomers Say They Have Solved One of Saturn’s Greatest Mysteries
Saturn eclipsed by Titan as seen from the Cassini probe – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech A neat feat of calculation…