A false-color photograph of the Moon, compiled from 15 images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft during its flyby on December 8, 1992. But what color is moonlight really? (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Blue moons, blood moons, and honey moons have all…
July’s full Buck Moon will be one of the lowest of the year and the farthest from the Sun. (Image credit: Getty Images) The first full moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s astronomical summer is about to appear. Known as the…
On the left is Mercury as seen by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft. On the right is an approximation of Mercury’s true color as seen by the human eye. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Most meteorites…
The Bullet Cluster spins and sparkles in this merged image from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC) What is it: A cluster of bullets Location: 3.7 billion light years…
An illustration of the known dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with Charon, Hydra, Myx, Kerberos, and Styx), Eris (with Dysnomia), Makemake, Ceres, and Haumea (with Hiaka and Namaka). (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via…
This week’s science news covers an interstellar visitor and the oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever sequenced. (Image credit: David Rankin/Catalina Sky Survey/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) Jump to: Let’s start with this week’s science news, where our solar system has…
An illustration of The Exploration Company’s Nyx spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere. (Image credit: The Exploration Company/ESA) Since the launch of the first satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957, we have sent many interesting payloads into space. As access to…
A composite image of South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, with majestic cosmic bubbles of radio energy in the background. A similar array, known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000, has been proposed for the Utah desert. (Image credit: South African…
The Northern Lights over a farmhouse in Iceland. (Photo by redtea/Getty Images) The location signals transmitted to Earth by GPS satellites were knocked off by several hundred feet during solar storm Gannon last May, and the disruption lasted for up…
A bright sunspot was spotted in the background of a recent transit image as the International Space Station passed in front of the Sun. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/@cosmic_background) An astrophotographer has captured a stunning moment during a powerful solar flare,…
New interstellar object A11pl3Z, now called 3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1: online observation – July 3, 2025 – YouTube See more A mysterious uninvited guest has been spotted hurtling through the solar system at incredible speeds. And now you can see…
The newly identified interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (previously known as A11pl3Z) is expected to fly past the Sun before eventually leaving the Solar System. (Image credit: David Rankin/Catalina Sky Survey) NASA scientists have confirmed that a mysterious object hurtling toward us…