Category Archives: Space
The moon might still have active volcanoes, China’s Chang’e 5 sample-return probe reveals
China’s Chang’e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 [...]
Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing’s Starliner during landing, NASA says
With Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is safely back on Earth, NASA says Crew Flight Test astronauts [...]
Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory review
The Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory makes it easier than ever to take your own [...]
A particularly active ‘aurora season’ could be just weeks away
September could be a prime time to see vibrant auroras, thanks to a quirk of [...]
The oldest evidence of Earth’s atmosphere may be hiding in rocks on the moon
The moon hasn’t had a magnetic field for 4.36 billion years. That means it could [...]
Asteroid 10 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock smashed Jupiter’s largest moon off its axis
New simulations show that Jupiter’s massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it [...]
Watch Live: Boeing Starliner is about to return to Earth without its crew
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth today after undocking from the International Space Station [...]
Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets
By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters [...]
Star-packed Triangulum Galaxy shines in new Hubble Telescope image
The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with [...]
Space photo of the week: The 1st image of an alien planet
The Very Large Telescope in northern Chile imaged a “super-Jupiter” exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 [...]
The James Webb telescope found hundreds of ‘little red dots’ in the ancient universe. We still don’t know what they are.
These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The [...]
How to watch the ‘Harvest Supermoon’ get eclipsed by Earth next week
September’s full Harvest Moon will drift into Earth’s shadow for a partial eclipse on Sept. [...]
Infamous ‘Wow! signal’ that hinted at aliens may actually be an exceptionally rare cosmic event
The source of a supposed alien broadcast that made researchers go “Wow!” may instead have [...]
Astronaut watches a meteor explode over Earth in a bright green fireball in stunning video from ISS
A new video from an astronaut’s vantage point in space captures a bright green burst [...]
What??? James Webb telescope finds giant question mark in space
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being [...]