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Watch more about the strange spiral in the night sky that many people saw while looking for Perseid meteors on August 12, 2025. EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd talks about the rocket

This is a simulated 3D view of clumps of gas in the center of a dark matter mini-halo. A new study in Taiwan said the chaotic early universe experienced supersonic

Artist concept of 2 intermediate black holes merging that generate gravitational waves. Astronomers can track gravitational waves to help them locate smaller, stellar black holes. Image via Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes

Much about our universe is incredible, but here are 9 mind-blowing space facts you might not have known about the cosmos. Image via Igor Cibulsky/ Pexels. 9 mind-blowing space facts

Artist’s concept of a binary star system. Scientists say AI could massively decrease the time it takes to compute the properties of binary stars in systems like this one. Image

This image, which the European Southern Observatory released on March 27, 2024, shows the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way in polarized light. A new mission

An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed. It and the galaxy it

View larger. | This image, taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows a glacier on Mars flowing downhill between 2 ridges. A new study says glaciers on Mars are

During its flyby of Mars in March 2025, the Europa Clipper spacecraft tested its radar instrument. This is a small section of the image it successfully produced of Mars’ surface.

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory lies under some of the darkest and clearest skies in the world, in Chile’s Atacama Desert. But now, light pollution from a new