November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you’ll still need a telescope if you…
Category: Space
Buy the DJI Mini 4K for 21% less and get an extra battery and a carry case for just $10
If you’re after a great deal on a user-friendly drone this Black Friday, here is an excellent deal on the DJI Mini 4K – a model we rate as our…
NASA budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump will cause a significant funding shortfall to Europe’s space science missions. But the European Space Agency hopes it can save them.
Flagship European space science missions conducted in collaboration with NASA face a possible combined funding shortfall of nearly $2 billion due to budget cuts put forward by the administration of…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth’s first real-life defense test
Artist’s depiction of an asteroid floating in space. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), Martin Kornmesser (ESA), Serge Brunier (ESO), Nick Risinger (Photopic Sky Survey) At this point in…
Mars spacecraft images pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS’s path with 10x higher accuracy: This could help us protect Earth someday
The path of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system has been predicted with an accuracy 10 times greater than previous estimates, thanks to images taken by a European Space Agency…
How do you fire someone into the sun?
Firing our villain straight at the Sun results in a big miss. Credit: Michael Brown, CC BY To point a rocket directly at the sun and hit would require great…
The Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight: Here’s where to look for ‘shooting stars’
Heads up stargazers! The Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight, bringing a flurry of shooting stars to the night sky as Earth passes through the trail of debris shed by comet…
Cosmic ray puzzle resolved as scientists link ‘knee’ formation to black holes
LHAASO experiment. Credit: LHAASO Collaboration Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy…
Expert advice for new stargazers: How to begin your amateur astronomy journey
There’s no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy that will have you exploring everything from twinkling…
If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension
An illustration showing how Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) expand with the universe. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute CC-BY-4.0 Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological…
