‘One of the strangest in the solar system’: James Webb telescope spots widespread auroras rolling through Uranus’ atmosphere
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope just mapped the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus for the first…
See the half-lit first quarter moon tonight: Look for the shadows of mountains on the lunar surface
Look high in the southern sky tonight (Feb. 24) to see the moon shining close to the stars…
Catch the Pleiades Star Cluster Close to the Moon Tonight!
The night sky is filled with wonders, and on February 23, 2026, one of the most beautiful sights…
A “Cosmic Positioning System” in the Outer Solar System
There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the “Hubble Tension” in cosmology. This feature describes how one…
LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial space station
WASHINGTON — LambdaVision, a company that has used microgravity experiments on the International Space Station to develop an…
Two stars carve egg-shaped nebula photo of the day Feb. 24, 2026
Two ageing stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the…
Daring Space Mission Would Catch Up With 3I/ATLAS and Intercept It
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS provided scientists with an exceptionally rare opportunity to study the nature of other planetary systems…
Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus’s ionosphere in this image released on…
NASA space telescope gets 1st clear X-ray image of sun-like star blowing a bubble
Astronomers have captured the first views of a young sun-like star blowing bubbles, offering a rare glimpse at…
Huge Plume of Pollution Linked to Something That Will Not Make Elon Musk Happy
Just over a year ago, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plummeted back to the…
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Crunchy Nodules Where Ancient Martian Water Once Stood
NASA’s Curiosity rover got a closer look at strange geological patterns on Mars: hardened ridges with sandy hollows…
Hidden 46,000-Year-Old Crater Found in China, Revealing the Largest Meteor Strike Under 100,000 Years Old
Hidden deep within the dense forests of Heilongjiang province, China, lies an ancient secret—an incomplete meteor impact crater…