A new telescope built to to track fast-moving space objects caught a comet from beyond the solar system moving across the sky — before anyone even knew it was there.
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in…
A new telescope built to to track fast-moving space objects caught a comet from beyond the solar system moving across the sky — before anyone even knew it was there.
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in…
A metallic ring weighing over 1,100 pounds crash-landed in Kenya just before New Year’s Eve, sending shockwaves—literal and figurative—through the small community of Mukuku, about 115 kilometers southeast of Nairobi. Experts from the Kenya…
The Royal Society was right to keep Elon Musk as a fellow, the UK’s new astronomer royal has said, adding there was a benefit to the private sector playing a role in space exploration.
Speaking to the Guardian after becoming the first woman to…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours.
The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in…
By all rights, they shouldn’t exist.
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to the distant past, it spotted hundreds of tiny, brilliant objects glowing red in the infant universe — just 600…
The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission have arrived at their orbital destination.
Crew-11’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday at 2:26 a.m. EDT (0626 GMT), less than 15…
The full sturgeon moon — the second full of summer in the Northern Hemisphere — will turn full on Saturday, Aug. 9. It will be best seen during dusk that evening, but also be a spectacular sight the previous evening on Friday, Aug. 8….
Our solar system’s resident ring-bearer Saturn will be visible with its iconic rings on August 11th-12th.
It’s the first time in 15 years that the…
The Grand Canyon is known as a world-renowned tourist destination for its breathtaking vistas and outdoor adventures. But within the striated canyon walls, a hidden world of microscopic marvels reveals the region’s role as an evolutionary…