Astronauts on the International Space Station caught Quadrantids from orbit in 2020. NASA/Christina Koch By Wednesday, your last best chance to see any shooting stars or fireballs for a while…
The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the “glittering swarm” of stars of the globular cluster NGC 6440. The cluster is located in the constellation Sagittarius, some 28,000 light-years away. Globular…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released the first image from its NOAA-21 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. The recently launched satellite captured a stunning panoramic view…
The Philippine Space Agency said it was recommending “precautionary measures related to expected unburned debris” from a Chinese rocket launch on Thursday. In the country’s last space launch of the…
From the successful scientific operations of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to the splashdown of the Orion space capsule, 2022 has seen a lot of wins. Here are the biggest…
Eastern Arizona’s Coolidge Dam has reportedly recorded the highest water level in five years. According to Fox 10 Phoenix, rainfall this season has helped raise the water at the dam…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped a pair of “dazzlingly different” images of a brilliant star cluster some 160,000 light years away. Globular cluster NGC 1850, in the constellation Dorado, is…
NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, deposited its first sample of rocks on the Red Planet’s surface Wednesday for an eventual return to Earth. The rover placed a titanium tube containing the…
NASA officially ended its InSight Mars lander mission on Wednesday after the spacecraft missed two consecutive communication attempts. Power on the lander had been dwindling in recent months as a…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander has recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever. According to new research published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Geophysical Research Letters, the international team…
