The Earth is exposed to restless forces that are never still or settled. Over thousands of years, it has shifted, cracked, and reformed itself in ways both violent and gradual.
Ice has come and gone, swallowing landscapes and then revealing them…
The Earth is exposed to restless forces that are never still or settled. Over thousands of years, it has shifted, cracked, and reformed itself in ways both violent and gradual.
Ice has come and gone, swallowing landscapes and then revealing them…
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of gas giant planets similar to Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a distant star.
The star, known as HR 8799, is 130 lightyears away – a stone’s throw in cosmic terms – and was already known to…
A sunrise partial solar eclipse on June 10, 2021, seen from Long Branch, New Jersey .
Will you see the “double sunrise” on March 29, 2025? That day, we will see a partial solar…
Dormant genes on the X chromosome may reawaken in old age, potentially giving the aging female brain a boost that the male brain doesn’t receive.
This phenomenon may help to explain why, on many measures, females show a higher level of cognitive…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled the first survey data from its Euclid mission. The images feature a spectacular collection of galaxies, clusters, and deep cosmic fields. This release previews what will soon become one of the largest…
Just over two weeks after a total lunar eclipse, the U.S. will be dazzled by a partial solar eclipse. For skywatchers in the northeastern U.S. and Canada this week, it will appear as though the moon took a bite out of the sun.
The eclipse will…
Some supermassive black holes found in giant elliptical galaxies become the source of colossal radio jets — powerful streams of charged particles ejected at nearly the speed of light. Such jets contain enormous amounts of radiation capable of…
What it is: Sunset on the moon, part of the first collection of high-definition imagery of a lunar sunset
Where it is: Mons Latreille, a mountain in the moon’s Mare Crisium (“Sea of Crises”) basin
When it was shared: March 18, 2025
Why it’s so…
Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, in 1675. At this original location, the…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX has announced its next scheduled Falcon 9 launch from Florida’s Space Coast.
Company officials said the launch will send the NROL-69 mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday afternoon.
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