At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to track fragments of space debris in orbit and warn when
At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to track fragments of space debris in orbit and warn when
On Sept. 7 2025, the skies darkened as Earth’s shadow consumed the moon. Skywatchers in many parts of the world saw the moon turn blood red due to a total
2010 was an exceptional year for sci-fi video games: StarCraft 2, Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Vanquish… But it might be safe to say it was Halo: Reach, arguably
The path of the partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, 2025. (Image credit: Fred Espenak and Michael Zeiler, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on work
Alaska’s Alsek Glacier has retreated more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) since 1984, turning Prow Knob into an island. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat
Get ready, sun lovers! We’re just one week away from the Sept. 21 partial solar eclipse. The moon will appear to take a “bite” from the sun for observers across
SpaceX will launch Northrop Grumman’s new “Cygnus XL” cargo ship on its debut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this evening (Sept. 14), and you can watch the action
Sept. 14, 2015, was one of the most important days in science history. It marked the first-ever detection of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time (the four-dimensional union of space
SpaceX just lofted yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base in
The astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) just got a fresh shipment of supplies. Russia’s robotic Progress 93 spacecraft docked with the orbiting lab’s Zvezda module at 1:23