Can you see Earth’s shadow?
Wherever there’s light and an object, there’s a shadow. By blocking sunlight, Earth casts a shadow, too. But…
Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars
Astronomers have uncovered signs that our Sun may have taken part in a large-scale movement of similar stars…
NASA’s LRO Camera Captures Unprecedented Image of the Moon’s Hidden Crater at Dawn
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured an extraordinary image of the Moon’s surface. The photo, taken on…
NASA’s tiny SPARCS spacecraft sends first images of flaring stars
NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant…
Old Tech Gets an Aerospace Upgrade
Just because hardware is a couple generations old doesn’t mean it isn’t still useful. Don’t believe me? Then…
MaiaSpace: Europe steps up in the race for reusable rockets
Published on 13/03/2026 – 15:00 GMT+1 MaiaSpace is assembling and testing Europe’s first reusable mini-launcher at its factory…
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of…
This Epic Nebula Looks Like a Giant Brain Floating in Space : ScienceAlert
JWST has captured one of its most eerily beautiful images yet: A glowing cloud of gas and dust…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
A rare double-planet conjunction will glow in the sky this summer, and you won’t need a telescope to see it
On 9 June 2026, Venus and Jupiter will appear so close together in the sky, they’ll be separated…
Astroscale selects Isar Aerospace to launch ELSA-M mission
WASHINGTON — Japanese satellite servicing company Astroscale has selected Isar Aerospace to launch a deorbiting mission developed by…
Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina…