Astronomers find comet unlike any other object in our solar system
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Ancient texts described a strange object in the sky. Astronomers have just worked out what it was
For astronomers, it’s a source of quite some frustration that the last time we observed a supernova in…
Northern Lights Tonight: 19 States May See Aurora Thursday Night
A G2-rated geomagnetic storm is not a major aurora outbreak forecast, but KP6 conditions — which are predicted…
China has 400 private space companies. The West is barely paying attention
China’s private space industry barely existed a decade ago. Today, more than 400 commercial space companies are operating…
In 1776, the moon was a clock, a calendar and a streetlight — and it was 31 feet closer to Earth
After Americans declared independence on July 4, 1776, a waning gibbous moon rose in the night sky. To…
NASA Drops Map Of Next Total Solar Eclipse — And It Visits The U.S.
A map showing where path of totality for the 2026 total solar eclipse. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio NASA…
Sun fires off 10 solar flares in 24 hours as multiple Earth-bound CMEs raise northern lights hopes for July 4 weekend
Heads up aurora chasers! The sun has been very busy. After unleashing an X1.1 solar flare on June…
These impressive space photos come with…sound? NASA has turned photographs of galaxies and nebulae into songs in a newly released collection
NASA’s deep space images often feel like both science and art. But NASA’s latest images are art in…
NASA launches bold mission to rescue Swift space telescope before it falls to Earth
A rescue spacecraft is speeding toward a NASA telescope to prevent it from falling into Earth’s atmosphere. The…
In 1776, the solar system only had 6 planets. Now, it has 8. Does it end there?
Over the past 250 years, the number of “planets” in our solar system has ranged from six to…
A tiny “quasi-moon” called Kamoʻoalewa shadows Earth’s orbit and may be a piece of the actual Moon blasted into space by an ancient impact — and China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now closing in to bring a sample back to Earth.
Earth has one Moon, but it does not travel entirely alone. A small asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa loops along…
How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have taken a new look at Earth’s violent beginnings and found that…