Scientists just found sugar in space. Here’s why that matters
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Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Total Solar Eclipse ‘Map Of Nope’ Meme Is A Must-See Before August
Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
At the South Pole, the sky is not the only direction from which astronomy can be done. Buried…
Statue of Liberty Nebula Wins NASA’s Picture of Day
NASA just put a photo of the Statue of Liberty Nebula in front of a global audience, and…
Total solar eclipse meets Perseid peak on August 12, 2026
For about two minutes on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the…
Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World
In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a helium-rich…
JWST May Be Missing Water Hidden Deep Within Mini-Neptune Worlds
Sub-Neptune exoplanets, exoplanets that are slightly smaller than Neptune, have been designated as the most common type of…
Psyche spacecraft rehearses asteroid science at Mars
Mars was a rehearsal, not a destination. Here is what a spacecraft built for a metal asteroid came…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from…
Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa | Indigenous Australians
Carlleen Dingo’s earliest memories are of looking up at the inky black skies above Australia’s north-west coastline, awash…