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...
Author - Tejas Sharma
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...
Brown dwarfs live forever. These Jupiter-size balls of gas aren’t massive enough to maintain nuclear fusion in their cores, so they never light up as stars...
NASA has announced a new launch date target for the James Webb Space Telescope: October 31, 2021. This represents a seven-month delay for the already much...
Most lunar scientists today think that the Moon formed after a Mars-size body hit the still-forming Earth, launching enough material into orbit to form our...