I’m not an astronaut, but I went to the International Space Station (sort of)
NEW YORK — I’m the kind of person who, every so often, falls into accidental daydreams about the…
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station
Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on…
Humanity’s first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week
About 40 minutes after it landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander sent this…
Jupiter’s moon Europa hides a saltwater ocean that may contain more than twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined, yet a new measurement puts 29 kilometres of solid ice above it, a barrier taller than three Mount Everests stacked end to end
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean hidden inside it may hold more than twice as…
Total Solar Eclipse ‘Map Of Nope’ Meme Is A Must-See Before August
Topline A total solar eclipse is coming to Europe, but only to a narrow path across parts of…
Astronomers express concern about future of science at Lowell Observatory after research department changes | Local News
About half a year after Lowell Observatory’s research restructuring first went into effect, more than a third of…
Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For Aug. 12’s Solar Eclipse
Topline It’s time to find your old solar eclipse glasses from the “Great North American Eclipse” on April…
Ukraine Plans $1.1 Billion Satellite Constellation to Reduce Reliance on Starlink
Ukrainian satellite communications company Stetman is advancing a $1.1 billion plan to deploy a nationally controlled 360-satellite constellation…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Amateur astronomer names asteroid in honor of Leilani Estates
There’s an asteroid, millions of miles away from Earth, that now shares a connection with Hawaii island. Dubbed…
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
At the South Pole, the sky is not the only direction from which astronomy can be done. Buried…
The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star; it is GJ 887 d, confirmed in 2026 around a quiet red dwarf 10.7 light-years away
There is something almost comic about the name GJ 887 d. It sounds like a storage code, not…