The blue spiral appeared in the night sky above New Zealand on Sunday. The stargazers in New Zealand were surprised by strange, spiralling light formations in the night sky on Sunday night. The phot… [+2269 chars]
A new map of one of the most massive stars in our galaxy is shedding light on what happens in the final stages of a giant star's death. Astronomers created a detailed 3D map of VY Canis Majoris, a d… [+5791 chars]
An enormous sunspot that has doubled in size in only 24 hours is now facing Earth—meaning it could send a solar flare our way. Sunspots are dark areas on the sun's surface that are associated with i… [+2651 chars]
A photographer has captured an image of the International Space Station silhouetted in front of the sun. Jamie Cooper, 52, realised it was expected to be visible above his home in Whilton, near Dav… [+1668 chars]
Enlarge/ A rendering of SpaceX's Starship lander on the surface of the Moon. 117 with 78 posters participating, including story author For several years now, NASA has publicly discussed the initial… [+3306 chars]
HELSINKI Chinas Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission. Sun Zezhou, chief design… [+3827 chars]
ByNational Radio Astronomy ObservatoryJune 20, 2022 As the shell of explosion debris from the supernova expands over a few decades, it becomes less dense and eventually becomes thin enough that radi… [+9132 chars]
Thousands of distant, primordial galaxies in different shapes and sizes glow in infrared light in a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The oldest galaxies are about 13 billion y… [+2065 chars]
A small chunk of rock that once broke away from Mars and found its way to Earth may hold clues that reveal surprising details about the red planet's formation. A new analysis of the Chassigny meteor… [+4240 chars]
As if cracking open a cosmic Russian nesting doll, astronomers have peered into the center of the Milky Way and discovered what appears to be a miniature spiral galaxy, swirling daintily around a sin… [+2841 chars]
Its not just a problem for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Last week, NASA revealed that one of JWSTs primary mirror segments, shown here, was damaged by a larger than expected micrometeoroid. Ima… [+6912 chars]
