The tau Herculids meteor shower is set to stain our skies with shooting stars. Fortunately, sky…
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Astrophotographer captures swirling plasma on the surface of the sun in stunning high-resolution image
A photographer captured a 286-megapixel image of the sun during the most intense period of solar…
Stunning new meteor showers from Tau Hercules may light up the skies over North America
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a fractured comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 spewing along…
Webb Space Telescope search for primordial black holes
Artist rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Webb Space Telescope…
The Hubble Telescope Observes the “Hidden Galaxy” Behind the Milky Way
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, as seen by…
An entirely new type of magnetic wave sweeping through the Earth’s outer core has been discovered
Using information from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered an entirely new…
Dinosaurs started hot, then some got cold
Paleontologists have long argued with the question of dinosaur metabolism – whether it was hot, like…
The last selfie of the Mars landing rover on the Red Planet shows why its mission ended
This is the last time we see a selfie from NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. And…
A possible new meteor shower from a smashing comet has scientists excited
This Memorial Day weekend, Earthlings – especially those in North America – may be treated to…
NASA unveils spacecraft idea that could send astronauts into deep space
NASA has announced a new vision for space navigation using sunlight as a force. The Diffractive…