Major X1.1 solar flare erupts from Region 3936

Solar activity increased again to high levels on December 29, with a major X1.1 solar flare…

The stargazing events to look forward to in 2025

The northern lights in Denali National Park in Alaska in 2024 Tom Walker/Alamy As the new…

The best sci-fi books to look forward to in 2025 from Adrian Tchaikovsky to Ken Liu

Voyages, both interstellar and Earth-bound, frame many new sci-fi novels Shutterstock/PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek I am writing…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait

Rubin Observatory’s commissioning camera (ComCam) Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Sometime in May or June, as the southern…

Parker Solar Probe aims to teach us more about the sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR…

NASA is Considering Designs and Simulations to Prepare Astronauts for Lighting Conditions Around the Lunar South Pole

In the coming years, NASA and other space agencies will send humans back to the Moon…

Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million…

ESA – A supernova checkup

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the spiral galaxy NGC 337, located about…

NASA Runs X-59 Engine in Maximum Afterburner

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft completed its first maximum afterburner test at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk…

Neutron Stars With Less Mass Than A White Dwarf Might Exist, and LIGO and Virgo Could Find Them

Most of the neutron stars we know of have a mass between 1.4 and 2.0 Suns.…