Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now is the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in clear, dark, moonless night skies as it…
An odd Martian landscape may be an icy place. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Mars landscapes have a different kind…
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
A combined image from Askap and Parkes shows bubbly looking supernova remnants that hadn’t been spotted before. R. Kothes (NRC) and the Pegasus team Our Milky Way galaxy contains lots…
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Scientists have managed to do something we’d previously thought impossible…
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
This hefty meteorite found in Antarctica weighs in at nearly 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). Maria Valdes Antarctica is a wonderland for meteorite hunters. Dark rocks stand out against the pale,…
A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used a…
