Excitement grows around the six-planet parade in February 2026. Here’s what we’ll really see
Cast your mind back to February 2025 and you’ll likely remember the seven-planet parade that was visible in…
NASA Armstrong Contributions Propel Artemis, Deep Space Innovation
NASA is leveraging expertise, capabilities, and partnerships across its centers to make Artemis campaign and deep space exploration…
People across North Island report second possible meteor sighting within a week
People across the North Island are reporting possible sightings of a meteor. Social media users, including one in…
Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race
In the consumer electronics playbook, custom silicon is the final step in the marathon: you use off-the-shelf components…
Space telescopes at light speed
Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The…
Life-friendly molecules are leaking out of Jupiter’s giant moon Europa, Galileo images hint
Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa appears to have life-friendly molecules on its surface. Al Emran, a researcher with NASA‘s…
A 60-Meter Asteroid Is Headed for the Moon, What Will Happen to Earth?
A 60-meter-wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, could collide with the Moon in December 2032, offering scientists an unprecedented chance…
‘Behemoth star,’ previously thought to be dying, is ‘rising from the ashes’ like a pheonix
One of the universe’s largest stars, previously predicted to be in the throes of a violent supernova death,…
US lab uses lasers, heat to map neptunium for deep-space nuclear fuel
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying neptunium, a rare radioactive element. It serves as the…
Sun unleashes colossal X4.2 solar flare, knocking out radio signals across Africa and Europe (video)
The sun is certainly putting on quite the show this week. Earlier today (Feb. 4), it fired off…
Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth’s darkest sky gets cancelled
A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories…
A monstrous sunspot 15 Earth’s wide is currently facing Earth — Here’s how to see it for yourself
A monstrous sunspot region 15-Earths-wide is currently so large it can be seen without binoculars or telescopes. But…