The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has discovered around 300 rapidly spinning neutron stars. Each of the newfound...
Science & Astronomy
Something serendipitous happened in early November. It had to do with NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, a solar-winged probe...
The stars of the Milky Way glisten in the night sky above Chile’s Valle de la Luna...
Former astronaut Mary Cleave, who launched twice on the space shuttle before becoming the first woman to...
NOAA’s aurora forecast for tonight. (Image credit: NOAA) Aurora chasers around the world are eagerly awaiting the...
For quite a while, an asteroid named Phaethon has presented astronomers with something of a conundrum. When...
“In 1976, Janet and I signed up for an ‘astronomy cruise’ to Bermuda. We were on deck...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found water and organic carbon molecules near a massive, active...
A weird blob of warm water that has appeared in the western Pacific seems to be making...
Skewed planetary pathways around a star aren’t so strange after all. Scientists have known that all the...
