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Update (June 22, 2026): The research discussed below is now published online in Nature. Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this image of the comet on August 27, 2025. International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA et. al The visitors we know of from…
Back to Article List The 10-year census will scan the entire southern sky every few nights, generating millions of alerts each night and an unprecedented stream of astronomical data. This 1.7-gigapixel view of the constellation Lupus was captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The image showcases the telescope’s unmatched range, resolving individual stars and…
Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event is hosted by Newton Public Schools…
WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Vast has named the former president and chief executive of The Aerospace Corp. as an adviser while the company awaits the next phase of a key NASA program. Vast announced June 30 that Steve Isakowitz has joined the company as an adviser. Isakowitz retired from The Aerospace Corp. last…
The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope’s inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn’t have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of telescope history, we find that a significant turning point came, coincidentally, just five years after…
Assyrian stele in situ, Nineveh, Iraq MOSUL, IRAQ—The National reports that an Assyrian stele that stood more than six feet tall has been uncovered near the Sun Gate in the eastern wall of the ancient city of Nineveh by a team of archaeologists from Iraq and the University of Chicago. Ali Obaid Shalgham of Iraq’s…
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of June 21-27, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week. During the Week Three hearings/markups on Capitol Hill top the list this week: House Appropriations marks up the defense bill; Senate Appropriations marks…
Slow Gods by Claire North is the New Scientist Book Club’s read for July This is the story of the supernova event known as Lhonoja. By the end of it, several planets will have burned, a couple of civilisations will have fallen, and I will have spoken to an entity some consider a god, and…
What really happens during a solar eclipse? ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández separates myth from fact, answering common questions and misconceptions about one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena. ESA is getting ready for three European solar eclipses. Follow this page to keep up to date with our planned activities! Embed code
This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it’s interacting with, and a distinctive curving filament to its upper left (purple). The filament, which is shown here both in optical and ultraviolet (UV) light, is the visible part of an overlapping supernova remnant, G189.6+3.3, that’s more prominent in radio and…