The Moon That Tipped a Planet
Neptune is the Solar System’s most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further…
Jupiter and the moon take a sunset stroll on March 26. Here’s how to see it
Look to the east at sunset tomorrow (March 26) to see the half-lit form of the waxing gibbous…
A photographer’s journey to capture a blood moon rising over the South China Sea. ‘It was an incredible moment’
Planning, uncertainty, a last-minute road trip and elation in the battle against cloud cover. Malaysian photographer Tharuman Gnanamoorthy…
NASA’s Bold New Plans for the Moon, Mars, and Earth Orbit
NASA’s leadership is shaking things up, announcing a series of major changes aimed at keeping the agency on…
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn,…
Astronomers Spot Previously Unknown Space ‘Cavity’ That’s Quietly Protecting the Moon
Earth has a particularly strong magnetosphere—a bubble-shaped capsule of magnetism—shielding the planet and its inhabitants from solar weather…
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Begins Integration and Testing Ahead of Mission To Titan
We’re getting close to launch day for Dragonfly! Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in…
Scientists finally solve century-old mystery of star with unexpected X-ray emissions
Astronomers have used the XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) X-ray spacecraft to discover that a star is…
The Earth could enter a phase with a weakly oxygenated or anoxic atmosphere, which would be a major red flag for our search for life on exoplanets
Every easy breath you take depends on a fragile balance between our planet, its living organisms, and the…
Like ‘accelerating from stationary to supersonic flight’: Europe’s Hera probe boosts speed, stays on course for November asteroid rendezvous
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has completed a major deep-space maneuver, setting it on course to rendezvous…
Musk Wants to Fire AI Satellites Into Orbit Using a Moon-Based Electromagnetic Cannon
Elon Musk has unveiled a plan to move AI infrastructure off Earth entirely, and launch it into orbit…
Hubble Finally Found the Invisible Galaxy Astronomers Hunted for Decades, It’s 99.9% Dark Matter
Dark matter is no stranger to the cosmos. It outweighs ordinary matter, the kind that forms stars, planets,…