Space

In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…

It’s a tough, winding haul to reach the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). An hour or so inland from…

Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…

Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…

Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies…

On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…

Each week, the TODAY Parents team highlights a favorite baby name or set of sibling names. It may…

If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic monstrosity: a “black hole…

Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another…

Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.