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This category presents the reader with astronomical events that can be seen each week, and month.
Astronomers have found a third giant planet around Beta Pictoris, one of the best-known young planetary systems near Earth. The discovery is striking because the planet was not first picked…
NASA is currently targeting August 30 for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida. The date can move, as launch dates do, but the mission is…
NASA says a new four-spacecraft mission has completed an early test that could make one of the hardest parts of space-weather forecasting much more precise: estimating when a solar eruption…
For nearly three decades, 1998 SH2 looked like a fairly ordinary near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered in 1998, catalogued, and followed through a 4½-year orbit around the Sun. Then, during…
A star being torn apart by a black hole is already an unusual sight. In this case, the black hole was in an even stranger place: more than 30,000 light-years…
Messier 87 is already famous for a photograph most people have seen: the Event Horizon Telescope image of the black hole at its center. Yet the black hole’s most dramatic…
On Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across a narrow stretch of the Northern Hemisphere. Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic, Spain and a small corner of Portugal…
Although Halley’s Comet will not return to our vicinity for another 35 years, a new analysis has sparked media attention with the claim that this famous object is wrongly named.…
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of modern science, because we can’t see it, touch it or feel it with our current instruments, and yet, we know it’s…
The Milky Way is expanding away from distant galaxies with the rest of the universe, yet it also has a local motion of its own. Our galaxy, together with the…
The repeating space signal that astronomers have studied over the past decade arrives without warning. It lasts just milliseconds, yet the energy it releases can outshine entire stars. Unlike most…
Meteorites and samples returned from asteroids contain organic molecules used by life. That raises a fascinating question: did space supply some of the ingredients from which life began on Earth?…
Despite decades of research, dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science.
Scientists have uncovered evidence that the spin of a black hole does indeed cause precession in ultraluminous accretion disks. This groundbreaking discovery marks the first time scientists have observed this precessional motion in such highly radiant systems.
Stunning.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the first crucial molecule for life, called methyl cation, or CH3+, in deep space.
It turns out that cloud systems on Earth and cloud systems on Mars are eerily similar, scientists have found.
The presence of subsurface water ice in these pits makes them suitable candidates for settling humans in the future.
Scientists estimate that the total length of the structure is about 1000 light-years.
Astronomers believe that there could be millions of interstellar objects in the Solar System despite the fact that only two have been seen to date.
Quite a lot of astronomers and space agencies wish to explore and study Mars. However, the environmental conditions of the red planet do not allow us to linger there for…
When we speak about life in space, Mars normally appears to be the most common answer or more precisely – the question. Especially in the latest one or two decades,…
China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover are still returning new views from the far side of the Moon, offering close-up looks at a landscape that is both familiar and fundamentally…
Jupiter doesn’t orbit the center of the Sun, and that’s not just a catchy headline—it’s a physics reality. The gas giant is so massive that the point it shares with…