The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/Univ Mexico Estrada-Dorado et al.; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI (M. Meixner)/NRAO (Rector TA); Infrared: ESO Emerson; Imaging: NASA Arcand) A new X-ray image…
Is Solar Maximum Over? Or Is It Still To Come? (Image Credit: Javier Zayas Photography via Getty Images) We know that the sun has reached its peak level of activity, known as solar maximum. But are we still in this…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second scientific flyby of the sun, the space organization announced Tuesday (March 25). (Photo credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) This week, the space agency announced that the Parker Solar Probe…
An artist’s impression of the Gaia telescope mapping the stars of our Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO Brunier) On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope, ending its revolutionary 11-year mission to map the…
The full field of view of SPHEREx includes the top three images, while the bottom three show the same patch of sky at different wavelengths. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s new space telescope has activated its detectors for the first time,…
(Image credit: Future) Jump to: One of the latest technological innovations to hit the astronomy field is smart telescopes. Combining the best of astronomical observation and astrophotography into one device, smart telescopes make it possible to see and capture space…
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…