The northern lights may appear in skies across the northern U.S. tonight (Jan. 16), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center. Earth is currently…
Category: Space
How Mars ‘punches above its weight’ to influence Earth’s climate
Mars’ gravity has a surprisingly large influence on Earth, affecting our planet’s tilt and orbit and thereby contributing to climate cycles lasting hundreds of thousands to millions of years, new…
NASA X-ray instrument finds black holes act like ‘cosmic seesaws’ shaping the universe
Turns out the expression “you can’t have it all” also applies to black holes. Astronomers have discovered that although feeding black holes can produce powerful cosmic winds and blast out…
This stunning Orion Nebula photo will make you want to grab a telescope this week
Astrophotographer Joel Martin captured a gorgeous view of the Orion Nebula (M42) shining 1,500 light-years from Earth, revealing spectacular detail in the stellar nursery as it hung in the winter…
Mystery shockwave around dead star stuns astronomers: ‘We found something never seen before and entirely unexpected.’
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered an unexpected shockwave around a dead star. The team behind the shock discovery (in more ways than one) is baffled by…
I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away
SUNRIVER, Oregon — Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper trees in Central Oregon’s High Desert, the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory offers exceptional vantage…
Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11
SpaceX will launch NASA’s next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA’s Pandora…
Latest news on ISS astronaut medical evacuation: NASA weighs return to Earth options
Refresh NASA prepares to return 4 astronauts home early NASA is drawing up plans today to return four Crew-11 astronauts to Earth from the International Space Station earlier than planned…
Vera Rubin Observatory discovers fastest spinning asteroid ever and its huge!
A powerful new telescope in South America is already offering tantalizing hints of what it can do. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop…
January belongs to Jupiter: See the king of planets in the night sky this month
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, currently shines as a brilliant silvery “star” in Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky as dusk slowly fades. It forms…
