A viral video of an asteroid dramatically hitting the Moon has all the trappings of a fraud.
The video came across PetaPixel‘s desk after Daily Mail published it last week on its Daily Mail World YouTube channel, which has nearly five…
Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth over the weekend, German astronomers watched it tumble through space.
As Kosmos 482 took its last laps, a German radar station spotted…
It began as a curious blip in radio data, something that looked a lot like a known pulsar yet behaved in ways that seemed counterintuitive. Researchers were intrigued by the odd timing of its signals, which suggested there might be more to this…
The May full Moon is known as the Flower Moon, a term that originated from Native American tribes that associated the…
Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is a solitary satellite dish that communicates with spacecraft. In its downtime, the facility’s antennas can track objects in space as they pass by Earth, improving…
A groundbreaking study, published in the Journal of Paleontology, has uncovered an ancient connection between the tegu, a South American lizard species, and the southeastern United States. For years, scientists have studied these reptiles as…
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Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest…
The strongest solar flare of 2025 so far has been unleashed by the Sun, causing radio blackouts over southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
The Sun had quite an active year in 2024, sending plenty of solar storms our way as we headed to the
NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured auroras on Jupiter that have hundreds of times more energy than those here on Earth.
Jupiter’s auroras are like the “Northern Lights, but way bigger!” NASA Webb Telescope wrote in a post on X.
NASA announced…
While nuclear fusion technology would prove a promising energy source with zero carbon pollution and minimal radioactive waste if successfully commercialized, scientists are still struggling to navigate its financial and technical roadblocks.
On…