Pale Blue Dot 35 years later: Earth in a sunbeam

View larger. | In this image from Voyager 1 – acquired on February 14, 1990, from…

Signs of life on Enceladus might remain hidden in its ocean

View larger. | Artist’s illustration of Cassini spacecraft flying through the water vapor plumes of Enceladus.…

Highest energy neutrino observed by undersea telescope

This is the optical module of the telescope KM3NeT that has captured the highest energy neutrino…

Einstein ring spotted around a nearby galaxy

Look closely. Can you spot the ring of light around the center of this galaxy, NGC…

Largest radio jet seen yet in the early universe

Watch this video of the largest radio jet that astronomers have seen yet in the early…

The Great Meteor Procession 112 years ago

Canadian artist Gustav Hahn painted his impression of what the 1913 Great Meteor Procession looked like.…

Are grooves on Uranus’ moon Ariel evidence for an ocean?

View larger. | NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured this view of Uranus’ moon Ariel on January…

Meet Quipu, the largest structure in the universe

The colored dots represent different superstructures out to 800 million light-years (250 megaparsecs) from Earth. The…

Aliens could detect Earth from 12,000 light-years away

A recent study by researchers at the SETI Institute in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures…

What if Bennu hit Earth? Simulations suggest catastrophe

What if Bennu hit Earth? The asteroid has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting our planet in…