Michael Faraday was completely self-taught, reading voraciously and attending public science lectures. Credit: Maull and Polyblank/Public domain...
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Scientists have known for a while that meteorites contain the “building blocks” of life – complex organic...
Riccardo Maffioli from Albizzate, Varese, Italy The Soap Bubble Nebula (PN G75.5+1.7 or PN Ju 1), a...
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. September 21: Saturn passes...
We live on a tiny world, embedded in a galaxy that is, itself, part of a vast,...
There are more than 450 confirmed moons orbiting the eight major planets, but only a handful of...
A Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from Vandenberg Space Force Base during a Starlink launch in March...
SpaceX rolled its Super Heavy booster, tail number B21, out to Pad 2 late Sunday night, Sept....
It’s easy to think of the Moon as the static constant companion in the night sky. Its...
Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA The galaxy you see here has an identity crisis....
Where is Earth’s center of mass? The answer seems trivially obvious. It’s right in the middle of...
The Sun’s magnetic fields are a twisty, curvy, ever changing mess. In particular, our star’s polar regions...
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Mariner 10 made three flybys of Mercury, which is shown here in an enhanced-color image from NASA’s...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently expected to launch in late summer 2026, will use gravitational...
X-rays showcase some of the most unique astronomical objects in the universe. Neutron stars and black holes...
An interloper “enters” the saturnian system overnight on September 21/22, as Titan passes close to a field...
We have long known that the Sun is active. It “flares” quite often, sending huge amounts of...
Supernova 2016gkg (indicated by red bars) is in the spiral galaxy NGC 613, located 70 million to...
Juno is skimming through a relatively sparse star field, but there are some nearby background stars to...
If we ever intend to send crewed missions to Mars, as NASA and China plan for the...