Browsing: Space Exploration
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26 ■ 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 — 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 ■ Have you ever watched Sirius rise? Find an open view right down to the east-southeast horizon,…
The Geminid meteor shower peaks this weekend on Dec. 13-14. If you’re planning to watch from the U.S., the weather…
The large-scale structure of the universe takes the shape of a cosmic web. Galaxies form within filaments and at nodes…
A New NASA Leader Rises? – Trump’s NASA Chief Pick Jared Isaacman Meets Congress Again – YouTube Watch On On…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this overhead view of a dust devil in 2012.NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five infant stars, or protostars, in…