Perseverance finds a metal stranger on Mars and a new clue to our own planet’s past
After nearly five years of rolling across Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally met something that does not…
A new rogue planet the size of Saturn has been detected about 10,000 light-years away
An artist’s illustration showing a planet in space. (Image source: TheDigitalArtist – Pixabay) Astronomers have detected a new…
Moon phase today explained: What the moon will look like on January 4, 2025
Now that we’ve passed the Full Moon phase, the Moon will be getting smaller each night as we…
Secret new life of trailblazing astronaut who destroyed her career with a diaper and trench coat… and why NASA wants to forget she ever went to space
The moment Lisa Nowak became a household name should have been in the summer of 2006, when she…
A huge hole in the Sun is sending high‑speed charged particles toward Earth
Over the past few days, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured something striking on the Sun’s surface…
SpaceX Launch January 03: Falcon 9 Delivers Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed FM3
The spacex launch today kicked off 2026 with a clean Falcon 9 mission from Vandenberg, deploying Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed…
NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away
NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to…
Supermoon, Wolf Moon or full moon? Kiwis share their photos
On average, the moon is about 380,000km away from the Earth, but in the last few days it…
The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon | Editorial
During the cold war’s space race, the Apollo moon missions were driven by the need to prove American…
Europe Prepares for Its First Total Solar Eclipse in Decades
Total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, from Bangladesh. Credit: Lutfar Rahman Nirjhar, CC BY 3.0/Wikipedia It has…
NASA’s Hubble finds turbulence in the largest observed birthplace of planets
Hubble image of Dracula Chivita (Image source: several; see sources) Hubble discovered the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed…
January Stargazing Offers the Best Time of the Year to See Jupiter and its Moons
Kicking off the new calendar this month is a tasty opportunity to see Jupiter and its four largest…