First-ever images of powerful X1.3-class solar flare captured by solar telescope
From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some…
Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on…
Gamma-ray signal may reveal direct evidence of dark matter
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided humanity’s first direct observational evidence of dark matter, according to…
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission has taken its first photo, and it’s good news
Mars is a planet that fascinates many scientists, notably regarding the presence of life elsewhere in the solar…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day, 16 billion miles, from us next year
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as…
Europa Clipper captures an impressive image of Uranus at more than 3.2 billion kilometers
Artist’s illustration showing Uranus with its rings. (Image source: 95C – Pixabay) The Europa Clipper probe recently captured…
NASA releases images of 3I/ATLAS. See all photos of interstellar comet
Did you miss seeing NASA’s new images of 3I/ATLAS? Here’s a look at all the photos the US…
Astronomers discover nearby super-earth in star’s zone
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located a relatively short 18 light-years from our solar system, positioning…
Sun bombards Earth with a series of coronal mass ejections
An image of the Sun taken by the Solar Orbiter (Image source: ESA; cropped) The Sun recently released…
Theia, the planet at the origin of the Moon, may have formed close to the Sun
If the Moon is the natural satellite of the Earth, this has not always been the case. Indeed,…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos — Colossal
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System,…
Our solar system is moving through space 3x faster than expected
The universe is supposed to look the same no matter where you stand. That idea, known as the…