A Stargazers’ Guide to Watching the Full Moon Pass Mars and the a New Come

The first full moon of the year will glide through the sky on Monday night. For…

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Prepares to Launch New Glenn Rocket: Live Updates

Jan. 12, 2025, 11:30 p.m. ET When upright, the New Glenn is 320 feet tall. At…

The Wavey Reality Behind the Uncertainty Principle

It’s turns out that you don’t need a high-powered quantum experiment to observe Heisenberg’s uncertainty Principle.…

BepiColombo Just Completed its Sixth Flyby of Mercury. Here are the Best Images

It’s not unusual for space probes to complete gravitational flyby manoeuvres en route to their destination.…

Planets Can Form in Even the Harshest Conditions

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the Nebular Hypothesis), new stars are born from…

Citizen scientists provide insights to Jupiter’s clouds in new study

View larger. | NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunning view of Jupiter and its bands of…

Could We Detect Advanced Civilisations by their Industrial Pollution? Probably Not.

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are…

NASA is Sending a Vacuum Cleaner to the Moon

By the end of this decade, NASA, the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), Roscosmos, and other…

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) rapidly brightens as it nears the Sun, enters LASCO C3 field of view

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is currently descending toward the Sun and is expected to reach perihelion…

Protecting Computers from Space Radiation

Computers are an integral part of space exploration, keeping them functioning when away from Earth. The…