China launches a Long March rocket carrying telecommunications equipment from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on May 20, 2025. (Photo credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images) China has launched the first batch of satellites for its planned constellation of artificial intelligence…
(Photo courtesy of Sergio Montufar) The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition have been announced, and they are impressive. Founded in 2018 by photographer Dan Zafra, the competition showcases photographs of the Milky Way taken…
A two-dimensional slice of simulated turbulence between stars, shown in a new study conducted on a supercomputer. (Image credit: J. Beattie) If you’ve ever poured milk into a cup of coffee and watched it swirl, you’ve witnessed turbulence in action.…
One of the pulsed signals was detected in the light of the star HD 89389, located in the constellation Ursa Major (image). (Photo credit: Christoph Lechenaff via Getty Images) A study aimed at searching for extraterrestrial life has found that…
An illustration of a black hole tearing a star apart. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The Milky Way contains millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But are there mid-sized black holes in our galaxy?…
A supernova remnant called Telios was recently discovered to be almost perfectly round. (Image credit: Filipovic et al. 2025, arXiv) Astronomers have stumbled upon an ominous, almost perfectly spherical supernova remnant glowing faintly at the edge of the Milky Way.…
The huge streak of light was spotted in at least seven different states and hung in the night sky for about 10 minutes. (Photo by Mike Lewinsky) A large white streak of light resembling an aurora appeared in the night…
An image of Venus taken by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in 1996. A new analysis of data collected by Magellan has revealed a startling hint that Venus may be more “active” than previously thought. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Researchers have found new…
Scientists have identified 26 new species of bacteria in samples taken from the clean room where NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander was located in 2007. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/Lockheed Martin) A new study has found that dozens of previously unknown species of…
China’s Tiangong space station orbits Earth. (Photo courtesy of China Manned Space Agency) Researchers have discovered a new microbe on China’s Tiangong space station that has never been seen on Earth before. The new strain of bacteria, named Niallia tiangongensis…
The number of satellites in low Earth orbit is growing rapidly, driven by private satellite mega-constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink network. (Image credit: Getty Images) Not long ago, at the dawn of the space age, there were only a few…
From left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter present their rings to various NASA spacecraft. The ability to observe planetary rings from Earth depends on their composition. (Image credit: NASA; NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI); NASA,…