Summer 2025 will have three of the shortest days on record as Earth’s rotation unexpectedly accelerates
Time is not on your side this summer. The Earth is set to have three remarkably shorter than…
Two Meteor Showers Will Peak on the Same Night in July and Be Visible in the U.S.
Alan Chen Two meteor showers are visible in the late July skies, and they happen to peak at…
Asteroid or comet: Interstellar object A11pl3Z visits our solar system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over…
Astronomers discover radio signals from galaxy cluster
Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of…
Picastro Is Social Media for Astrophotographers
Astrophotographers are a passionate bunch, and they now have a new dedicated social media and web platform to…
Astronomers make groundbreaking discovery about largest comet ever observed flying through deep space
A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the…
Axiom Space Crew and SpaceX rocket launch in Florida set for Wednesday
Brevard’s Sands Space History Center reopens following upgrade The Sands Space History Center reopens following a drastic overhaul…
Amateur Astronomer Spent Seven Months Creating a Unique Look at Jupiter’s Massive Storms
Swedish photographer and amateur astronomer Peter Rosén has created an incredible new video that combines thousands of photos…
“Like Nothing Ever Seen Before”: Astronomers Discover a Colossal Milky Way Cloud Containing the Mass of 160,000 Suns
IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Astronomers discovered a colossal molecular cloud named M4.7-0.8 in the Milky Way, weighing as…
Hands-On at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Its First Enormous 5 Gigapixel Image
Last year, PetaPixel visited the SLAC Laboratories in Stanford to go hands-on with the LSST camera module, the…