A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Punch a New Crater Into the Moon
The Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA This Wednesday, at around 06:35:37.5 UTC, a…
Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image
A new image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captures a well-documented patch of the universe in exceptional…
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…
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos
To test these new ideas, researchers are exploring the infant universe through simulations. “There’s actually been really remarkable…
Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
To confirm that the observed signal was indeed caused by a moon, the research team also examined other…
UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
UN warns record strong El Nino will add fuel to a burning planet
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages,…
There’s a European total eclipse in two weeks (with Ireland getting about 95% darkness)
A “ONCE IN a generation” solar eclipse is to occur in two weeks, and Cork – which is…
Vigorous turbulence driven by quasar-mode feedback in a cluster core
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)1 is the successor to the Hitomi X-ray observatory2, which ceased operations…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…
Lunar eclipse set to transform night sky in August
As we wrap up these final days of July and head into August, one of the things that…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…