Doomed NASA spacecraft beams back stunning cosmic images weeks before fiery plunge to Earth
A doomed spacecraft set to plunge to Earth in weeks has shared new cosmic images. NASA’s Neil Gehrels…
Meteors, Milky Way, Hunter’s Moon: September astronomical events
The spookiest month is packed with things to see in the dark night skies It’s the start of…
Meteors, Milky Way, Hunter’s Moon: September astronomical events
Meteor showers, planets, and the core of the Milky Way: Astronomical events for October 2026 The spookiest month…
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it’s less than 1 percent as…
Closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means
The closest planet to our sun is shrinking. Here’s what that means Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the…
These 7 Stunning Space Images Show the Universe Through the Largest Digital Camera Ever Built
The LSST camera, with one of the color filters positioned in place. Credit: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory…
The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
Perseid meteor shower puts on light show in night sky over North Bay
The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions…
A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC
Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving particles…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…