The Perseid meteor shower peaks late Saturday night, with conditions ideal for skywatchers. NASA says its All Sky Fireball Network is already detecting the first meteors of this year’s shower…
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of Earendel – the farthest star ever detected – reveal a massive B-type star that is more than twice as hot as our…
A group of international researchers has discovered the highest-energy light ever observed from the sun. In a new paper published last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists found…
While questions about the universe abound, a James Webb Space Telescope image has recently raised others. The telescope’s high-resolution Near-Infrared Camera snapshot of a pair of forming young stars also…
NASA has restored full communications with its Voyager 2 spacecraft following weeks of silence. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Friday that NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia,…
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of the Ring Nebula. The images were released Thursday by an international team of astronomers, including three from the Canadian…
California winter wave heights may be increasing under climate change, researchers say. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, U.C. San Diego Scripps Institution…
The heaviest animal to have ever lived may have been an ancient colossal whale that was recently discovered in Peru, scientists said. Scientists have been digging up massive fossils of…
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope captured the irregular galaxy NGC 6822, showing it has unusually low metallicity. NASA says this means the galactic neighbor doesn’t have many…
Scientists and onlookers marveled at the first of two supermoons in the month of August, which was on display Tuesday, with photos of the phenomenon quickly spreading online. The supermoon,…
