Humanity’s first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week
About 40 minutes after it landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander sent this…
At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that astronomers can see light from galaxies billions of light-years away with a clarity impossible at sea level — which is why 11 countries have built 13 major telescopes on what is technically a dormant volcano
At the summit of Mauna Kea, above roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s atmosphere and close to…
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Here are the final contenders
Four miles from the Eiffel Tower, a photographer captured the full moon’s path over a pink Paris skyline.…
Inside the High-Tech Effort to Keep Satellites Alive
A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on…
Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Overnight Science News: The serendipitous discovery of a cosmic collision crater
Tonight’s edition focuses on easy reading science stories. There’s only one dire climate chaos wildfire report and it’s…
July full Moon: How and when to see the 2026 Buck Moon
Based on current forecast models, there is a good chance of seeing the Buck Moon across much of…
Total solar eclipse meets Perseid peak on August 12, 2026
For about two minutes on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the…
We tend to imagine the habitable zone as a narrow ring around a star, but icy moons have transformed that picture. Far beyond the reach of life-sustaining sunlight, vast oceans may remain liquid beneath their frozen surfaces—warmed by the constant gravitational flexing of the giant planets they orbit.
The picture most of us were given at school was wonderfully simple. Put a star in the middle,…
JWST May Be Missing Water Hidden Deep Within Mini-Neptune Worlds
Sub-Neptune exoplanets, exoplanets that are slightly smaller than Neptune, have been designated as the most common type of…
Psyche spacecraft rehearses asteroid science at Mars
Mars was a rehearsal, not a destination. Here is what a spacecraft built for a metal asteroid came…
ESA’s Mars Express meets NASA’s Psyche
On 15 May, whilst en route to a metallic asteroid, NASA’s Psyche mission flew just 4500 km above…