(Image credit: Getty Images) Jump to: With a partial solar eclipse taking place in our skies on March 29, now is the time to invest in some of the best solar binoculars. The event will be visible across North America,…
A radio wave map of the Milky Way’s turbulent centre, created using the MeerKAT telescope. A new study has used radio observations to reveal previously undetected ‘tornado’-like structures at the heart of our galaxy. (Image credit: I. Heywood, SARAO) New…
(Image credit: Celestron) The partial solar eclipse on March 29 is just a few days away, and while viewing the eclipse with sunglasses is a great and cost-effective way to protect your eyes, you may need something more reliable for…
(Image credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ESO) The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will provide the ability to study the Milky Way in greater detail than any previous ground-based telescope. It’s hard to overstate its potential impact.…
Asteroid 2014 TN17 is larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza. If it ever hits our planet, it could destroy an entire city. (Image credit: Getty Images) A “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of a pyramid will fly past Earth…
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore spent 286 consecutive days in space before returning to Earth on March 18. How does that compare to spaceflight records? (Image credit: NASA/Keegan Barber) On March 18, 2025, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and…
A partial solar eclipse will be visible across 13 U.S. states on March 29, 2025. (Photo by Hector Knudsen via Getty Images) The sunrise on Saturday, March 29, will look quite unusual from the northeastern coast of North America. With…
How could alien civilizations provide themselves with energy? (Image credit: Coneyl Jay via Getty Images) The burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—has fueled the Industrial Revolution, which has revolutionized civilization. Gasoline powers most of the cars we drive; coal…
An illustration of a black hole’s accretion disk emitting light. New research suggests that the black hole’s elusive radiation, known as Hawking radiation, may have changed the structure of our universe. (Image credit: Gam-Ol via Pixabay) Recent research suggests that…
An illustration of a nova exploding after a white dwarf has stripped away too much material from its more massive stellar partner. (Image credit: Gemini International Observatory Garlick, M. Zamani) Groundbreaking observations of a repeating explosion in space known as…
A sunset with Earth and Venus on the horizon, photographed by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost spacecraft on the Moon. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) What is it: Moon sunset, part of the first in a series of high-resolution lunar sunset images.…
A bright image of a newly identified candidate black hole light echo that could be one of the largest ever detected. (Image credit: Julian Shapiro, Chilescope T1) ANAHEIM, Calif. — Even after a black hole at the center of a…