A Meteor and the Gegenschein
Is the night sky darkest in the direction opposite the Sun? No. In fact, a rarely discernable faint […]
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Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
What’s happening behind Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in […]
Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
Clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, diffuse or compact. The featured image shows […]
Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in […]
NASA Mars Helicopter Makes One-Way Flight to New Mission by ...
Ingenuity has flown almost flawlessly through the red planet’s thin air and will now assist the science mission […]
A Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth. Where Will ...
The Long March 5B, the country’s largest rocket, is expected to come down sometime this weekend, but where […]
Deepscape at Yacoraite
In this evocative night scene a dusty central Milky Way rises over the ancient Andean archaeological site of […]
His Ship Vanished in the Arctic 176 Years Ago. DNA ...
For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition […]
Mercury Redstone 3 Launch
Sixty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers “lit the candle” and sent Mercury […]
Heads Up! A Used Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to ...
The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about […]