(Image credit: R. Kamlach et al., 2025) Stunning new images of the solar surface provide a unique opportunity to observe violent sunspots and activity on the Sun. A completely new high-resolution camera system developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics…
(Image credit: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute) / INAF / F. Onori) Astronomers have carefully studied a unique and extremely destructive cosmic phenomenon that occurred when an unfortunate star wandered too close to a supermassive black hole. The…
“Coronal rain” — seen here with the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory — occurs when hot plasma in the sun’s corona cools and becomes denser. It is pulled toward the surface by gravity. (Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF)…
In the greenish-smoky light of the sky, ghostly ripples can be seen. On May 26, under the starry skies of Colorado, with the Milky Way arcing into view, photographer Aaron Watson raised his camera and captured something unusual unfolding in…
Noctilucent clouds sparkle over the Neris River in Vilnius, Lithuania (Image credit: Photo by Jaugen Jerczak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Noctilucent cloud season is here! Here’s what you need to know about when to see this amazing phenomenon as we…
Europa’s surface ice is constantly changing, according to new spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0) Icy worlds may seem frozen in time and space because they…
Thousands of satellites are launched into space, and at some point they will need to be returned to Earth to burn up in the atmosphere. (Image credit: yucelyilmaz/Getty Images) In 2024, a group of farmers in Saskatchewan, Canada, faced an…
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the design phase, but could soon become a reality if it passes final tests and receives full funding. (Image credit: NASA/Vladimir Vustyansky) NASA scientists are currently developing plans to build a…
Sunspot AR 14100 reappeared over the sun’s western edge on Monday (May 26) after a two-week journey across the far side of the star. This is its third return to the Earth-facing side of the sun. (Credit: NASA/SDO) A huge,…
(Image credit: Tobias Rötzsch) When you look up at the sky on a clear night shortly after one of SpaceX’s many Falcon 9 rocket launches, you might notice a bright line of lights moving rapidly across the sky. The phenomenon,…
The number of spacecraft orbiting the Earth is rapidly increasing thanks to the development of private satellite “mega constellations”. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The number of satellites orbiting Earth has more than doubled in the past five years and is likely…
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a black hole-powered quasar (pink dot in center of image) that has been around since the first billion years after the Big Bang. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Lilly (ETH Zurich), D.…