SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (photos)
SpaceX has sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying…
APOD: 2026 July 30 – Red Sun trough Wildfire Smoke
Explanation: This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image…
Astronaut Shares Breathtaking View Of Full Moon From Space
The International Space Station (ISS) posted a stunning photograph of the full moon glowing against the darkness of…
Spain Offers €1 Billion in Bid to Host Thirty Meter Telescope
Credit: TMT Spain has offered a package worth up to €1 billion to support the construction of the…
In a first, ‘super-Earth’ rocky exoplanet may have an atmosphere
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…
UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile’s tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan’s don’t
There is a 400-kilometre river system near the north pole of Titan that drains into a sea larger…
Asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass closer to Earth on 13 April 2029 than many weather satellites do — roughly 32,000 kilometres from the surface — and up to 90% of the world’s population may see it with the naked eye
On the evening of 13 April 2029, a point of light may appear among the stars and move…
Total eclipse of the heart: Family channels passion for chasing eclipses around the world into book
SINGAPORE – When Koh Joo Beng, 66, was doing national service as a young man, he was sometimes…
NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley
From left to right: Casey Swails, NASA deputy associate administrator; Mike Waller, vice president of BL Harbert International…
APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with…
Two meteor showers, one spectacular season: Summer stargazing begins – news.cgtn.com
Two meteor showers, one spectacular season: Summer stargazing begins news.cgtn.comSky-gazers can look forward to a double meteor shower peak…