NASA’s Perseverance discovers potential meteorite Phippsaksla on Mars
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from…
Watch the Leonids meteor shower as it peaks at up to 15 meteors per hour
The Leonids are produced by dust and rocky debris from the comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, which orbits the Sun every…
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
These 3 comets will soon be visible in the sky, and here’s how to observe them
Every year, numerous cosmic events can be observed from Earth, sometimes offering breathtaking spectacles, such as C/2020 F3…
The Sun Sent A Coronal Mass Ejection Directly Toward The Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS In A First Of Its Kind Event » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Interstellar objects entering the solar system are rare. So rare, in fact, that the one astronomers are…
Solar system is moving 3x faster than previously thought, study shocks
As you read, you are flying through space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Not only…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
New imaging technique provides the sharpest image yet of a star’s surrounding disk
Hubble image of a star forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud ( NASA Hubble Space Telescope via…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
The First Radio Signal From Comet 3I/Atlas Ends the Debate About Its Nature
More evidence has emerged to support the natural origin of comet 3I/Atlas. After several weeks of conspiracy theories,…