View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Filippo Galati in Sampieri, Sicily, Italy, shared this image. Filippo wrote: “On May 16, 2022, before the start of the lunar eclipse, I photographed a particularly favorable passage of the International Space Station over the skies of Sicily. It is framed by the ancient furnace Penna and highlighted...
"Houston.. Please be informed there is a Santa Claus."
Those are the famous words of Apollo 8 astronaut, Jim Lovell, reporting back what he and his Apollo 8 crew members saw when they became the...
The Saturn V rocket stands as one of the most impressive feats of engineering in human history. Developed in the 1960s as part of NASA’s Apollo program, the Saturn V was a three-stage...
As NASA prepares to return humans to the Moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars, ensuring the safety and well-being of crew members is of paramount importance. Space exploration missions are inherently risky endeavors,...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
The mini-halos of dark matter scattered throughout the Cosmos could function as highly sensitive probes of primordial magnetic fields. This is what emerges from...
Water levels in the Mekong basin, which extends through six countries in South-East Asia, are subject to considerable seasonal fluctuations. A new model now...
NASA are planning on building a telescope to hunt for habitable worlds. The imaginatively named ‘Habitable Worlds Observatory’ is at least a decade away...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft bound for the...
Researchers have identified Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern from New Caledonia, as having the largest genome recorded, surpassing the previous record-holder Paris japonica. This discovery,...
Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our...