The Vera Rubin Observatory saw first light in June 2025. Its images from that time are called the Virgo First Look images because they focus on the Virgo Cluster of
The Vera Rubin Observatory saw first light in June 2025. Its images from that time are called the Virgo First Look images because they focus on the Virgo Cluster of
HELSINKI — A Chinese institute recently completed ground tests on what it describes as a reconfigurable flexible on-orbit manufacturing platform, targeting future large-scale, low-cost space manufacturing. The tests on a
An Introduction To Mars Terraforming – 2025 Workshop Summary Terraforming Mars is an age old science fiction concept now worth revisiting through the lens of modern science and technology. This
Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off objects. Because telescopes such as Hubble (visible light), the James Webb Space
This graph displays data collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed “Bright Angel.” Scientists later determined one of those targets, a rock nicknamed “Cheyava
Ryan Gosling is adrift in deep space with an unlikely rock-skinned alien in the latest trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ “Project Hail Mary,” and it looks like this cosmic riddle
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Steven Bellavia captured Mercury’s sodium tail on the morning of December 3, 2025, from Surry, Virginia. Steven wrote: “A 24-million-km-long plume of gas is
Seen from space, western China’s Tarim Basin shows the importance of waterways. The image, taken by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) instrument on the Landsat-9 satellite, captures the geological and
Let’s not mince words: Darth Vader is one of the best fictional characters ever created (after Batman!) so it’s with great anticipation that New York Times best-selling novelist Adam Christopher
For the first time, a complex, ring-shaped molecule containing 13 atoms—including sulfur—has been detected in interstellar space, based on laboratory measurements. The discovery closes a critical gap by linking simple






