Where no gourd has gone before photo of the day for Aug. 28, 2025
Every autumn, Ludwigsburg Castle in Germany transforms its grounds to host the world’s largest pumpkin exhibition. Every year…
What did Voyager 2 capture in its last image before its cameras fell silent?
Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft to complete a ‘grand tour’ of all four outer…
It’s snowing in the universe — NASA detects a mysterious effect seen only on Earth until now
The feeling of a heavy downpour of snow during winter is something very familiar to us; we expect…
A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeLogarithm of the nickel mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS…
Planet Y: Is there a hidden world in our Solar System?
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Scientists believe there are planets beyond Pluto (pictured) in our Solar System Astronomers…
A dead ‘sun’ forms building blocks of exoplanets in new JWST Butterfly Nebula image
Cosmic dust particles that give birth to planets around young stars have for the first time been found…
Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…
Meet NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Masterminds
As four astronauts venture around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II test flight in 2026, many people will…
Asteroid Bennu Is Like A Time Capsule From The Early Solar System
The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just…
How scientists are using exoplanets to map out ‘polka dots’ on stars
NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, or “transit,” the face of their…
Patagonia Glacier retreat, Chile – NASA Science
Patagonia, Chile. Left: September 18, 1986. Right: August 5, 2002. The 1986 image shows the region prior to…
Moon photobombs the sun in wild NOAA satellite image photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2025
To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a solar eclipse…