Bright sprites, or short-lived light phenomena, sparkle above the clouds in video captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS. (Image credit: Don Pettit/NASA) NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured fascinating video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his position…
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the moment a small dust devil (front left) collided with and merged with a larger one (right) on January 25. The rover was about half a mile away from the event. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) NASA’s Perseverance rover…
Newly discovered comet SWAN25F will make its closest approach to the Sun on May 1, but many aspects of the bright object remain unknown. (Photo: Michael Jaeger/Gerald Rehmann) An amateur astronomer has spotted a bright green comet hurtling toward the…
A new study has found that lichens can withstand the high levels of ionising radiation that hits the surface of Mars. (The lichen in this photo is Cetraria aculeata.) (Image credit: Pensoft) A new study suggests that Earth organisms known…
(Image source: Image data: NASA Image processing: Tanya Oleksuik CC BY NC SA 3.0) A powerful solar storm in 2017 compressed Jupiter’s magnetosphere “like a giant squash ball,” according to a new study. The discovery was made thanks to an…
(Image credit: Roscosmos) A trio of secretive Russian satellites launched earlier this year placed a mysterious object into orbit, drawing the attention of space trackers and analysts. The satellites, designated Cosmos 2581, 2582 and 2583, were launched on a Soyuz…
A 146-gram fragment of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite. (Photo credit: Arizona State University/SETI Institute.) The meteorite debris that landed in Costa Rica in 2019 is so unusual that scientists believe it traveled through space virtually unscathed — until it hit…
(Image credit: Live Science) The Celestron AstroMaster 102AZ telescope is one of the most popular telescopes out there, with over 4,000 reviews on Amazon. Right now, you can get one of the best beginner telescopes for just $278.99 — that’s…
Stunning drone video shows Isar Aerospace’s first orbital launch attempt ending in flames in freezing waters about 30 seconds after liftoff. The German firm’s first Spectrum rocket lifted off on Sunday morning (March 30) from Andøya in northern Norway in…
The Milky Way as captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope, with an added image from the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, Samuel Crow (UVA), John Bally (CU), Ruben Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), Iain Heywood (Oxford)) What…
(Image credit: ESO Marconcini et al.) A distant galaxy is home to a voracious supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food, according to a striking new image using data from the Very Large Telescope. A spiral…
(Image credit: AWESOME Mission) Last week, NASA launched two rockets into the auroral region over Alaska to study the effects of these geomagnetic light phenomena on the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The results were impressive. The experiment, called Aurora Waves Excited…