Upgraded Sardinia Radio Telescope To Continue Probing Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
It’s a tough, winding haul to reach the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). An hour or so inland from…
The idea that Earth is the Solar System’s ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean’s volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
Earth looks like the obvious water world. Oceans cover about 71 per cent of its surface, colour the…
In 2018, an amateur astronomer detected a signal from a NASA satellite lost since 2005: The agency confirmed its “dead” spacecraft was still transmitting
Launch of IMAGE spacecraft aboard of Delta 277 | Wikimedia Commons For more than 12 years, NASA’s IMAGE…
Were these polygonal cracks on Venus once on a seafloor?
View larger. | Here’s a region of cracks on Venus, 2nd world outward from our sun. They might…
APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden
Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth’s skies…
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
On 16 July 2024, a daytime fireball crossed the sky near New York City, generated a sonic boom,…
Baby Name of the Week August 14: Eclipse
Each week, the TODAY Parents team highlights a favorite baby name or set of sibling names. It may…
Three supermassive black holes have been discovered in the same galaxy
If black holes fascinate astronomers, it is mainly because of their power, but also because of the many…
Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic monstrosity: a “black hole…
James Webb has found patches of fresh crystalline ice on Europa that should be destroyed by Jupiter’s radiation in less than 15 days — meaning parts of the moon’s frozen surface are being renewed fast enough to keep replacing it, possibly offering clues to activity beneath the ice shell.
Europa’s radiation clock runs fast enough to erase order from its exposed ice in about a fortnight. Charged…
Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”
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NASA watched Earth disappear from the surface of Mars for the first time ever
Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another…