Backyard Astrophotographer’s Images Play at the End of ‘Project Hail Mary’
Rod Prazeres’ images appear during the end credits. A photographer has expressed his delight as his images of…
Scientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fields
Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo…
New moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter and Saturn
ⓘ Placidplace – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing Saturn’s rings and several moons. Astronomers have discovered new moons…
As SpaceX Launches its 10,000th Satellite, A Photographer Captures the Impact on the Night Sky
‘Swamped Skies’ by Joshua Rozells. This week SpaceX passed an eye-watering milestone: it launched its 10,000th satellite into…
NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild
Have you ever turned to look at something at the exact moment something unbelievably cool happened? Imagine if…
Where are the top places for stargazing and starbathing in Europe?
As of March 2026, more than 200 locations in 22 countries across the world have been certified as…
African Telescopes Are Driving Frontier Space Discoveries
After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT…
Nearby galaxy caught mid-transformation after ancient cosmic collision
image: ©zorazhuang | iStock A nearby galaxy is undergoing a major transformation, and astronomers are watching the process…
Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
Flaugher, B. et al. The dark energy camera. Astron. J. 150, 150 (2015). Article ADS Google Scholar Beers,…
Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Early Earth was a brutally hot, volcanically active, radiation-bathed wasteland. Somehow amid this hostility, the necessary ingredients for…
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Extraction and purification of organic molecules from samples The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were…
Satellite launches and burn-ups are altering Earth’s atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer
The number of satellites launched into space has grown dramatically in recent years. Mega-constellations, large networks of satellites…