Category: Astronomy & Space

A series of recent analyses focusing on the Moon’s vast South Pole-Aitken basin is rewriting the history of this enormous…

Astronomers have identified the most chemically pristine star ever discovered, a relic from the early universe that offers an unprecedented…

China’s Tianwen-2 sends a selfie from 43 million km, showing Earth behind its hardware and flag as it pursues an asteroid sample return and a comet rendezvous

James Webb captures the first mid-infrared image of a red supergiant progenitor, revealed by a dust cloak before its 2025 supernova SN2025pht in NGC 1637

Gravitational-wave astronomers have captured the signal of a distant black hole merger that reveals an exotic orbital behavior predicted by…

A distant pair of stars orbiting so closely that their atmospheres merge has been found to be unexpectedly stable, challenging…

Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will have an opportunity to witness the Draconid meteor shower this week, an annual celestial…

A new AI uses few-shot learning to classify astronomical transients from 15 example images, achieving about 93% accuracy and explaining its reasoning publicly

Physicists detect water vapor from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS via ultraviolet hydroxyl emissions, showing about 40 kg/s of water at 3 AU from the Sun

A new generation of spacecraft technology is unfolding in low Earth orbit, promising to significantly enhance the capabilities of small…