Browsing: Space Exploration
I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away
By Vidya Saras
SUNRIVER, Oregon ββ Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper trees in Central Oregon’s High…
This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.…
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 β Full Moon tonight (exactly full at 5:03 a.m. Saturday morning EST). The Moon is above Jupiter,…
NASA’s first crewed mission toward the moon in more than half a century moved closer to liftoff recently, as the…
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26 β This evening the Moon has its monthly conjunction with Saturn, but an unusually close one. They’re…
Record launches, reusable rockets and a rescue: China made big strides in space in 2025
By Vidya Saras
China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests,…
Amateurs discovered an arc of gas near Andromeda Galaxy in the sky. The origin of this gas, which glows from…
‘Crash Clock’ reveals how soon satellite collisions would occur after a severe solar storm β and it’s pretty scary
By Vidya Saras
How long would it take for satellites to begin to collide with space junk and each other if they were…
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 β Have you ever watched Sirius rise? Find an open view right down to the east-southeast horizon,…