View larger. | Dark and lighter-colored streaks on a crater rim on Mars. They’ve tantalized researchers for decades with the idea they might be related to liquid water. Now a
View larger. | Dark and lighter-colored streaks on a crater rim on Mars. They’ve tantalized researchers for decades with the idea they might be related to liquid water. Now a
Mercury and Jupiter will fit within the field of view of a pair of 10×50 binoculars (denoted by the yellow circle) after sunset on June 7. (Image credit: Starry Night)
Illustration of the various probabilities discussed. The variable x may refer to any of the physical constants α, β, γ etc., with the others integrated over. The dashed lines indicate
TAMPA, Fla. — Japanese water propulsion startup Pale Blue is exploring jointly developing systems with Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric, after the satellite maker joined the University of Tokyo spin-off’s $10 million
Heads up, aurora chasers! A powerful solar storm is on the way. Space weather forecasters are warning of a strong (G3) geomagnetic storm, with a chance it could reach severe
There’s no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the
Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak. On April 15, 2025, Espenak announced on his Facebook page that he
A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths when pointed at a dwarf galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. (Image credit:
This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. This week we’re at the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis where we’ll post episodes
This is the ‘beauty shot version’ of Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents. The visualization starts with a rotating globe showing ocean currents. The camera then zooms into the Kuroshio






