Astronomy News

white and red space ship on blue sky during daytime

Rocket ship joyrides harming the environment? How space tourism might derail Earth’s healing skySeptember 30, 2023

image of a shooting star on the sun loks like yellow rays coming out of a dark plant

Spectacular ‘shooting stars’ spotted on Sun’s corona, astronomers revealSeptember 24, 2023

Unprecedented spacecraft hack leads to never-before-seen views of the SunSeptember 14, 2023

Mars rocks in the shape of a shark fin

Sharks on Mars? NASA releases ‘fishy’ images from the Red PlanetSeptember 8, 2023

Ripples in the spacetime around a merging binary black-hole system from a numerical relativity simulation

Black holes chirp? Astronomers discover unique sound as these objects mergeSeptember 7, 2023

This image shows the orientation of the magnetic field in the distant 9io9 galaxy, it looks like a blue dot and a blue crescent moon

Galaxy’s ghostly glow marks furthest magnetic field ever detected — 11 billion light-years awaySeptember 6, 2023