Comet 220P flares back into binocular visibility. It has been a busy month for astronomy. In the midst of an eclipse season bookended by the total solar eclipse on August 12th and the
A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base on the Starlink 10-49 mission on Aug. 25, 2026. Image:
A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea is to use what they term a hybrid telescope composed of an orbital starshade coupled
The principle of vacuum birefringence, a quantum effect first predicted almost 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, states that empty space can alter the behavior of light. As Heisenberg theorized, even a perfect
NASA and its commercial partners are making progress on their way to a permanent human presence on the Moon. As part of that, a recent press release and accompanying YouTube video hints they
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio waves. These pulses occur every few minutes, much longer than the radio pulses from rapidly
Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and the potential for life. But directly studying its ancient past is currently limited to orbiters
Multiple space agencies are gearing up to send missions to the Moon in the near future. These missions will not only see astronauts return to the Moon for the first time since the
Long period radio transients (LPTs) are mysterious signals coming from objects inside our galaxy. They’re highly polarized, coherent radio bursts that repeat regularly, with periods ranging from a few minutes to a few
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 15-20 mission on Aug. 22, 2026. Image: SpaceX Update Aug. 22, 3:51 a.m.
