As cosmic events go, supernova explosions epitomize the saying, “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.” They’re the...
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We’ve seen some great images from the total lunar eclipse this week. But this one might top them all. Astrophotographer...
Creating astronomical images is no easy task, and astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have provided a handy guide to...
Did the skies above you cooperate this morning to see the total lunar eclipse? Mine did not, and Fraser reports...
650 million years ago, Earth was completely or almost completely frozen, according to the Snowball Earth Hypothesis. As the atmosphere...
The fate of the Sun is sealed. It was sealed by gravity in the earliest days of its formation. In...
On the afternoon of Monday, October 31st, 2022 (Halloween!), China launched the Mengtian laboratory cabin module into space, where it...
Are miniature probes the future of deep space exploration? It’s starting to seem that way. While schoolbus-sized flagship missions still...
The Sun is active, dynamic, and occasionally violent. Unfortunately our view of the Sun is limited to a small handful...
When we think about finding life beyond Earth, especially on exoplanets, we immediately want to search for the next Earth,...
