A faint trio | Astronomy Magazine false product a-faint-trio https://www.astronomy.com/picture-of-the-day/photo/a-faint-trio/ A faint trio | Astronomy Magazine Bill Batchelor, taken from Coquitlam, B.C., Canada The unusual shape of the supernova remnant...

Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, and solar physics, and what this myriad of scientific disciplines can teach scientists and the public regarding the search for life beyond...

Following a hugely successful mission and almost 30 years in orbit, ESA’s ERS-2 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on 21 February 2024.Predicting the exact time and location of ERS-2’s natural reentry was made more difficult by...

A stadium-sized asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched.Asteroid 2008 OS7 passed by Earth on Feb. 2, 2024 at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers), about 7.5 times farther than the...

Back to Article List Astronomy’s travel partner, Eclipse Traveler, is offering another great adventure in Turkey for August 2024. A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive...

In a recent announcement, the Chinese Space Agency (CSA) unveiled the names for its forthcoming lunar mission components. The CSA have been working towards sending humans to the Moon through a series of robotic missions. The 22-tonne capsule that is taking the...

Space Safety 26/02/2024 521 views 9 likes ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence is being prepared for a journey to the distant asteroid moon Dimorphos orbiting around its parent body Didymos. One of the first features Hera will look for is the crater left...

The company that pulled off the first American moon landing in more than half a century just got a shout-out from the country's commander in chief.U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on the historic touchdown of its Odysseus moon lander,...

Back to Article List If Earth let all its extra quarter days add up, we’d quickly be celebrating the 4th of July when it’s snowing. Earth, as seen from space. Credit: NASA. Happy leap year! Feb. 29, 2024, is leap day and marks an ongoing, longstanding...

Japan’s space agency didn’t expect its wrong-side-up SLIM moon lander to revive itself after powering down for a circuit-chilling lunar night on Feb. 1. But that’s exactly what happened. “Last night, a command was sent to SLIM and a response received,...