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...
Author - Tejas Sharma
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...
Comet NEOWISE at dusk. Comet NEOWISE still hangs in the west in late twilight. Plan to start looking about 60 to 75 minutes after sunset. The comet has been...
Another spacecraft is joining a growing armada of Sun-observing satellites. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has just made its first close pass by the...
French amateur Thierry Legault took this exquisite photo of Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) over the famous island abbey Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy at dusk on...
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks next month on August 12th (and is pretty active still for a couple of days around the time). The last-quarter Moon rises...
“Clyde’s Spot” (center white storm; a more prominent white oval sits to the lower right) versus the Great Red Spot. Data: NASA / JPL-Caltech...
Catch Comet NEOWISE while you still can. Comet NEOWISE was as bright as hoped when it swung out from its July 3rd perihelion into the low morning sky...
