Satellites spy one of Russia’s most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out
A growing lava dome and dark flow channels are visible inside Shivelyuch volcano’s caldera in this detailed Landsat…
A Gigantic Atmospheric Anomaly Keeps Showing Up on Venus. Astronomers Finally Know Why
In 2016, a Japanese Venus orbiter repeatedly spotted colossal waves of acidic clouds sweeping the planet’s atmosphere. For…
This Telescope Spent Five Years Mapping the Cosmos and Captured 47 Million Galaxies in the Process
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed the most detailed survey of the universe ever produced, mapping…
A Lost Moon Once Orbiting Saturn Might Have Given Birth to Its Icy Rings
For centuries, Saturn’s rings have been one of the most captivating features in our solar system, their stunning…
Astronomers Discovered a Brand-New Type of Planet That Reeks of Rotten Eggs and Defies Planetary Science
Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in Nature, uncovers…
They really launched this tiny spacecraft (Well, sort of.) photo of the day for May 11, 2026
A tiny robot figurine takes a look at a miniature ExoMars capsule. (Image credit: ESA – A. Conigli)…
Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
This VISTA VVV Survey image shows the galactic bulge near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…
Sun unleashes colossal solar flare and coronal mass ejection, raising the chances of northern lights this week
CME eruption in upper left corner. The bright speck of light to the right is Mercury. (Image credit:…
Scientists explored the edge of the solar system and found a strange bright structure no one had seen before, opening a new mystery close to home
Astronomers have spotted an enormous molecular hydrogen cloud surprisingly close to the solar system, and it was hiding…
New Model Finds the Lower Size Limit for Habitable Exoplanets
The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there’s a huge variety of exoplanets out there,…
The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there
When international space agencies send probes out into the solar system, many are abandoned to expire and deteriorate…
NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally pulled a rock out of Mars
A newly released series of images captures an unusual moment for NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars after a…