NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) captured this view of the mighty Olympus Mons volcano on Mars…
Category: Earth Sky
New moons! Uranus now has 28 and Neptune 16
Astronomers captured this image of a new moon of Uranus – labeled S/2023 U1 by astronomers…
Tatooine exoplanets may be more habitable than we thought
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an alien sunset from a planet with 2 suns. A…
Star clouds in the Milky Way are doing the wave
A huge structure of star clouds – containing stellar nurseries – in our sun’s backyard are…
Are we poised to understand fast radio bursts?
View larger. | This artist’s concept shows a magnetar (a type of neutron star). It’s ejecting…
John Glenn 1st American in orbit 62 years ago today
John Glenn became the 1st American in orbit on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Glenn sits outside…
Record quasar is most luminous object in the universe
Artist’s concept of the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351. A quasar is the bright core of a distant…
Icy Eris and Makemake have warm hearts
Artist’s concept of dwarf planet Eris, with its moon Dysnomia. They reside in the Kuiper Belt…
Castor is 6 stars in one
Twin stars and a star cluster. From a Northern Hemisphere location, face generally northward to find…
Euclid space telescope begins dark universe survey
Euclid’s mission is to scan 1/3 of the night sky in the visible and near-infrared and…