Images from SpaceX released on April 1 showed that the privately-owned Fram2 mission successfully delivered humans to “polar orbit” for the first time. (Image courtesy of SpaceX) A Bitcoin billionaire and three other rookie astronauts are currently orbiting the Earth’s…
A newly released video shows a huge stream of spiral solar wind blasting out from the Sun in 2022. The time-lapse footage also reveals strange dark lines reminiscent of a UFO. (Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/Metis & EUI Teams,…
An asteroid known as the ‘city killer’ 2024 YR4 will come within a potentially dangerous distance of Earth and could even collide with the Moon in 2032, according to data from the James Webb Telescope. (Image credit: JUAN GARTNER via…
(Image credit: NOAA) Researchers have captured a huge and exceptionally powerful X-class solar flare emitted by the Sun on Friday (March 28), just before the star’s eruption caused a radio blackout on two continents. Video captured by the GOES-16 satellite,…
During a partial solar eclipse on Saturday, the moon covered almost 90% of the sun’s disk over Nuuk, Greenland. The eclipse, visible across much of the Northern Hemisphere, was the first of two partial solar eclipses this year. (Image credit:…
(Image courtesy of Robert Lee (created with Canva)) A team of scientists has developed a model of black holes that eliminates one of the most troubling aspects of physics: the central singularity, the point where all our theories, laws and…
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the Small Magellanic Cloud. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray) What is it: The Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. Location: 200,000 light years away, in the…
This image shows a unique Martian rock made up of hundreds of dark, round spherical balls stuck together, captured by the SuperCam Remote Micro Imager on the Mars Perseverance rover. The spherules are about 1 millimeter in diameter. Some are…
Deputy Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Getlein speaks at the 16th annual McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, March 18. (Photo courtesy of McAleese and Associates) A U.S. Space Corps general said the United States is on…
(Image credit: bjdlzx via Getty Images) Jump to: When you first get into astrophotography, one of the most exciting celestial phenomena to capture is a meteor shower. Photographing the short-lived beauty of a meteor shower can be a spectacular and…
JWST has detected ultraviolet light from the ancient galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1, providing the earliest evidence yet of the Era of Reionization. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JADES Collaboration, J. Witstok (University of Cambridge/University of Copenhagen), P. Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen), A.…
A NASA map showing where in the Northern Hemisphere the March 29, 2025, eclipse will be visible. (Image credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio) Tomorrow, millions of people will see their sun partially darkened as a partial solar eclipse covers part…