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…
Astronomers have identified a fast-moving object, named A11pl3Z, that is heading toward the Sun and appears to have originated outside our solar system. (Photo credit: David Rankin/Catalina Sky Survey) Astronomers have spotted what they think may be an “interstellar object”…
An artist’s illustration of the star HIP 67522 b emitting a burst of plasma toward the planet. (Image credit: Daniel Futselaar) Astronomers have found the first evidence of a “death planet” – an exoplanet that orbits so close to its…
SNR 0509-67.5, calcium in blue, is seen in two concentric shells, indicating a double detonation. (Image credit: ESO Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.) For the first time, astronomers have obtained dramatic visual evidence of a…
An example of a jellyfish galaxy, with blue “tentacles” at the bottom where star formation is taking place. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have just found one of the most distant jellyfish galaxies ever discovered. (Image credit:…
Astronomers have discovered two bright “novae” shining simultaneously in the night sky: V572 Velorum (left) and V462 Lupi (right). It may be the first time that multiple novae have been visible to the naked eye. (Photo credit: Eliot Herman) A…