Celestron Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian review
The excitement of the new moon mission has potentially helped create a new generation of stargazers, just like…
The Sky Today on Sunday, August 2: Mercury at greatest western elongation
Back to Article List The solar system’s smallest planet reaches its greatest western elongation from the Sun, 19°…
Astronaut Shares Breathtaking View Of Milky Way From Space
Astronaut Don Pettit has shared one of his favourite photographs captured during his latest mission to the International…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
Watch SpaceX’s Starship land at sea in these stunning new videos
It was Lucky 13 for SpaceX, as new videos show just how much work came into getting the…
Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming
Global warming has sped up since around 2015, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for…
August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain…
Jorge Pérez Gallego, astrophysicist: ‘A total eclipse creates an energy similar to a big concert, to the feeling of celebrating a goal’ | Science
From producing the official live broadcast of the 2024 total solar eclipse for all of the United States…
Ganymede is a moon, yet it is larger than the planet Mercury, may contain more water than exists on Earth’s surface, and even generates its own magnetic field, making it less like a conventional moon than a full-sized world that happens to orbit Jupiter.
Calling Ganymede a moon is correct, but it does very little to prepare us for what the object…
Atacama Desert: In 2003, scientists found that a part of Chile’s desert is so mysteriously dry that the soil is lifeless and has no DNA at all; today, scientists use it to study Martian conditions without leaving Earth
Atacama Desert (Photo via Canva) Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, and it is…
Don’t Miss August 12’s Solar Eclipse And Perseid Peak
Topline For skywatchers across North America and Europe, Wednesday, Aug. 12 offers a rare opportunity to experience two…
First-of-its-Kind Footage Shows the Ocean From a Whale Shark’s Perspective
Researchers attached cameras to whale sharks, the world’s largest known fish, to witness krill chases for the first…