Opinion

Solar Vigilance

India’s Sun-watching spacecraft is about to face the moment it was built for. In 2026, the solar cycle will crest, the Sun will flip its magnetic poles, and the familiar yellow disc will turn into a ...
"The Marathon art issue has been resolved with Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment to my satisfaction," wrote artist Antireal on X today. The update comes nearly seven months after Antireal ...
Muon Space is reimagining how Earth observation satellites can help humanity respond to one of the planet’s most urgent challenges — wildfires — and how commercial space technology can deliver ...
Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...
A baby-naming specialist traces the meteoric rise of this proper noun to a cultural appetite for peace, and a shift in how ...
More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...
The next solar eclipse will be here before you know it, but this one will be a little different. Here's what makes the 2027 ...
Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...
A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...
About 250 miles away from Earth, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman captured some stunning shots of these auroral skies.
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies ...
Saturn’s rings are not the permanent fixture they appear to be through a backyard telescope. Planetary scientists now agree ...