Rare comet to flash through New Zealand skies – before it disappears for 170,000 years | New Zealand
A comet formed on the edges of the solar system will grace southern skies over the next fortnight,…
APOD: 2026 May 3 – Trifid Pillars and Jets
APOD: 2026 May 3 – Trifid Pillars and Jets Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
We’re Launching So Much Stuff At The Moon That We’re Littering It With Space Junk Now
George Rose/Getty Images Earth used to look pretty…
Hubble captures evolving star birth in the Trifid Nebula
Hubble just captured a new close-up of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,000 light-years from Earth.…
SpaceX will pay Elon Musk a bonus if he gets at least 1 million people to live on Mars — here’s the plan
Investors have paid a lot of attention to Elon Musk’s pay package at Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), but they…
Between asteroids, stellar explosions, and thousands of alerts in a very short time, the Rubin Observatory is already making it clear that it could mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy
If your phone buzzed 800,000 times overnight, you would probably turn it off. On February 24, 2026, astronomers…
Spaceflight is hard on the heart, yet artificial ones grow better in space than on Earth
The human heart shrivels away in space, but researchers have found that mini-hearts grown from human stem cells…
Mars will tear its own moon apart. Now scientists think it could be sooner – and more destructive – than expected
The origins of Mars’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos, are still a matter of some debate. Some planetary…
‘It was quite a light show!’ NASA astronaut spies dramatic fireball from the International Space Station (photos)
On the International Space Station, you look down to see shooting stars. NASA astronaut Chris Williams just reminded…
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this week: How to see ‘shooting stars’ dropped by Halley’s Comet
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower will peak overnight from May 5-6, giving skywatchers a chance to spot fast-moving…