Astronomy5h
How we found Morehouse’s Black Ring: A dark nebula hiding in plain sight
Improvements to astrophotography finally brought to light a feature in the constellation Cygnus that wasn’t obvious to the ...
Astronomy13h
ESA’s Hera mission is headed to Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA crashed into
The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.
Astronomy13h
The Sky This Week from October 11 to 18: 2024’s third Super Moon rises
The Moon passes several planets as Jupiter’s Galilean moons delight and Saturn’s satellite Iapetus reaches western elongation ...
Astronomy18h
All about NASA’s Europa Clipper, launching soon for Jupiter
Currently safely ensconced in SpaceX’s hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, where it ...
Astronomy19h
See a comet in the evening: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
In this video, Astronomy magazine editor Dave Eicher invites you to observe a comet that’s becoming visible in the evening ...
Astronomy1d
Earth could see strong aurorae tonight as solar storm hits ‘severe’ G4 level
Aurorae may be visible tonight as far south as Alabama, and high-frequency radio impacts have already been reported.
Astronomy1d
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is rising higher in the evening sky. Here’s where to look
After putting on a show in the predawn sky earlier this month, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was eventually lost in the ...
Astronomy1d
NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the Red Planet’s geologic mysteries
NASA plans for a Mars mission in the 2030s. While there are several reasons for pursuing such a mission, the biggest is scientific discovery.
Astronomy2d
The Moon meets Antares: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe a close meeting of the Moon and the brightest star in the constellation ...
Astronomy3d
Dark Energy Explorers: How you can help unravel one of the universe’s biggest mysteries
The participatory science project is helping classify millions of galaxies for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment.
Astronomy3d
Why Starizona’s Nexus coma corrector wows
This accessory boosts fast Newtonian astrographs with superb flattening to the edges of your field while reducing focal ratio ...
Astronomy3d
NASA postpones Europa Clipper launch as Hurricane Milton takes aim at Cape Canaveral
Kennedy Space Center is battening down the hatches as Hurricane Milton gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico.