NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back at Pluto after its closest approach on July 14, 2015, and snapped this photo of the planet’s hazy...
Author - Tejas Sharma
Most of the time we at Sky & Telescope ponder what’s up there, in the sky. But sometimes we need to focus on what’s down here, on Earth. Events can force...
Artist’s illustration of a magnetar, a neutron star with powerful magnetic fields. ESA Pulsars have historically been classified into different categories —...
Comet NEOWISE: Still there at dusk. . . . Comet NEOWISE continues to hang dimly in the northwest at the end of twilight, though it’s fading. Plan to look...
Maryland began the 18th century as a plantation colony and slave society. Deprived of liberty and deadened by monotony, exhaustion, and the constant threat of...
The launch of a Long March 5 rocket carrying Tianwen 1 CNSA A Long March 5 rocket roared to life early this morning at 12:41 a.m. EDT / 4:41 UT, launching from...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an image of a young, Sun-like star and its two companions. Direct images of...
In exactly 500 days there will be a real collector’s solar eclipse. On Saturday, 4 December, 2021, at 7:33 a.m. UT — just after a brief night passes — part of...
Every dot in this “pie” diagram is a galaxy, color coded by type: green for nearby galaxies, magenta and red for old red galaxies, blue for young...
The launch of the Mars Hope orbiter MHI / JAXA / Mars Hope A rocket roared to life taking to the early morning sky over Japan with the first Marsbound mission...
