Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) unexpectedly continued to brighten past its predicted peak on October 21, achieving an estimated 4th magnitude. Despite its brightness, increasing lunar illumination ...

Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

On October 25, Saturn's moon Iapetus reaches inferior conjunction, positioned 1.3′ north of Saturn and shining at approximately 11th magnitude, making it easier to observe near its parent planet.

The emerging subdiscipline of "astroimmunology" has been formalized, focusing on understanding how spaceflight stressors significantly compromise the human immune system. A new guide, published in ...

New research has identified 41 small-scale landslides on the lunar surface that formed since 2009, indicating the Moon is more geologically active than previously understood. Analysis of ...

Looking up at the Moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the ...

The upcoming Full Moon, occurring at 11:48 P.M. EDT, is designated as the traditional Hunter’s Moon, and for this specific event, also as a Super Moon and the 2025 Harvest Moon. A Super Moon is ...

On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* that lies at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Chris Impey, an astronomer at ...

The Space Store, an e-commerce retailer of space-themed merchandise since 1996, has opened its first physical store in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The store, owned by Firecrown, is described as the ...

On October 17th, early morning observations of Jupiter will feature transits of Io's and Europa's shadows across its cloud tops, with specific timings varying by time zone. A telescopic view of ...

Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus of *Astronomy* magazine, encourages early morning observation of meteors between midnight and 4 a.m. These meteors, identified as Orionids, visually originate from the ...