Beginning next week, daytime rocket launches are all officially scrubbed thanks to the government shutdown. As the record-long shutdown of the U.S. federal government stretches into its second month, commercial
Beginning next week, daytime rocket launches are all officially scrubbed thanks to the government shutdown. As the record-long shutdown of the U.S. federal government stretches into its second month, commercial
After a three-year pause, Icarus, the pioneering project that tracks wildlife from space, is set to resume operations. On 11 November 2025, a rocket is scheduled to carry a satellite
At around 10:00 p.m. local time on Sunday (Nov. 9), if you look low toward the east-northeast sky, you will see a waning gibbous moon, 72 percent illuminated, and shining
Roman WFI footprint overlaid on an image of the Rosette Nebula taken from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-2; B. M. Lasker et al. 1990). Red squares outline the 18
The planets in our Solar System host hundreds of moons, so it seems likely that planets in other solar systems do, too. New research examines the likelihood of rocky planets
Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of space object that is neither a star nor a planet,
Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the subsurface ocean stable over geologically significant timescales, boosting
Using data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the solar system’s most volcanic body is even hotter than we thought. In fact, Jupiter’s moon Io could be emitting
A diagram showing how data flows through the transformer architecture implemented here. Data padding and masking are left out for simplicity. The model does implement this functionality, but it is
EarthSky’s Kelly Kizer Whitt explains how to see Earth’s shadow and the Belt of Venus, in this video. We live in uncertain times. But things are always so much more




