Astrophotographer spends nearly 70 hours capturing a delicate blue nebula in Orion (photo)
Astrophotographer Emil Andronic captured a gorgeous blue reflection nebula glowing inside the red clouds of Orion’s Head in the constellation Orion.
A state of matter last seen just after the Big Bang may exist inside neutron stars — and scientists think they can prove it
As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other’s shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
The Seven Hour Explosion Nobody Could Explain
On 2 July 2025, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray burst lasting over seven hours, nearly twice the duration of anything previously recorded. Not only was it the…
NASA’s DART Mission Also Changed Didymos’ Orbit Around Sun
The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a near-Earth object.
Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days
Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something…
Two days, two coasts, two more SpaceX Starlink batches launched
Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 13 and 14,…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 201 — Born to Explore
On Episode 201 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Jay Gallentine to talk about former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manager John Casani.
The Universe’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerators Were Here All Along
Every planet with a magnetic field has a radiation belt, a region of space where charged particles get trapped and flung around at extraordinary speeds. Earth has two of them,…
Get cleaner photos of the night sky by using these tips to clean your camera lens without scratching it
Follow these tips for cleaning the different parts of your camera lens, without risking damage.
Boys from the Dwarf: Looking back at ‘Red Dwarf’, the sci-fi show that had a huge impact on my childhood
Red Dwarf’s scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter Quill guarded the galaxy.