Not one, but two meteor showers are about to peak—here’s how to catch the stellar show

Geminids Meteor Shower in northern hemisphere. Credit: Asim Patel/ Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 On any clear…

NASA’s Orion spacecraft gets lift on Earth

Credit: NASA/Amanda Stevenson Crane operator Rebekah Tolatovicz, a shift mechanical technician lead for Artic Slope Regional…

How solar storms play havoc with our lives

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the 150 million kilometers that separate it from the Earth, the…

Kepler’s 1607 pioneering sunspot sketches solve solar mysteries 400 years later

The earliest datable sunspot drawings based on Johannes Kepler’s solar observations with camera obscura in May…

Study sheds more light on the nature of pulsar PSR J1227−6208

Time-integrated pulse profiles of J1227−6208 as recorded with the different receivers (from left to right: Parkes…

SpaceX cleared to launch Falcon 9 rocket again

The Falcon 9 rocket experienced an anomaly during a launch on July 11, 2024 in its…

Geoscientists narrow timing of enormous ‘magmatic event’ on the moon more precisely

Previous lunar zircon chronology.(A and B) Images of the near (A) and far (B) side of…

Space-trekking muscle tests drugs for microgravity-induced muscle impairment

Astronauts conducting experiments on muscle chips. Credit: NASA A gentle rumble ran under Ngan Huang’s feet…

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will illuminate cosmic dawn

This artist’s concept shows how the universe might have looked when it was less than a…

What lunar caves tell us about the shared origins of the Earth and the moon

The pit in Mare Tranquillitatis leads to an underground cave system. Credit: NASA Using radar, a…