Space

Somewhere on the ridge of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, a telescope with an 8.4-metre mirror is in…

On July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station announced the detection of another interstellar…

Summary A total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal on August 12.…

Image: NASA. The Roman Space Telescope launch date now has a firm spot on NASA’s calendar. The agency…

It’s been an eventful week in science news. Astronauts on the ISS were briefly ordered to shelter in…

NASA has set August 30, 2026 as the launch date for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope —…

We have an idea of what the solar system’s past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However,…

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a fascinating timelapse video showing the growth of crystals in microgravity, offering…

Six families of carbon-rich space rocks have puzzled scientists for years. They look nothing alike. Some crumble at…

Rare noctilucent clouds shine above the city of Kennewick in Washington State June 2. (Image credit: John Clement.)…

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…

There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey