Long before modern astronomy, humans looked to the stars and were absolutely astounded by what they saw....
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Unlike the Moon, the Sun is constantly rotating from our perspective – but we still only see...
Modern astronomy features massive telescopes with segmented mirrors, huge digital cameras, sophisticated data pipelines, and suites of...
When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, an eager astronomy community had a massive list...
The magnetic environment around the Sun is a jumbled mess of chaotic fields and streams of charged...
Lunar meteorites — literally pieces of the Moon’s surface that have been displaced into Earth or solar...
The universe hosts a myriad of star types, including supergiants, giants, main sequence, red dwarfs, brown dwarfs,...
The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It’s the scientific child of Eric...
For many decades, scientists assumed that Mars was geologically inactive. While its surface is covered in features...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is joining in the technological effort to detect signals from other civilizations,...
Is there a link between Earth’s geomagnetic reversals and extinctions? Nobody has proven it, despite their efforts....
Typically, when we think of exoplanets, we think of neat spheres floating directly in front of their...
Black holes are one of the most misunderstood objects in the Universe. Much of the confusion stems...
The Vera Rubin Observatory’s First Look Event happened in July 2025, when the observatory revealed its first...
Astrophysical jets from supermassive black holes are awe-inspiring phenomena. These jets, made of ionized gas, extend for...
There’s ample evidence that large galaxies host supermassive black holes (SMBH) in their centers. And there’s growing...
Inferior conjunction offers a rare chance to spy Venus at its closest approach. Where have all the...
Private companies are getting better and better at launching more and more mass into space with larger...
The Universe has gone through many defining changes over its 13+ billion year history. One of its...
Many topics in astronomy and astrophysics are esoteric. There’s not much of a relationship between something like...