Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

The exposed roots of a tree appear snake-like, like the hair on Medusa’s head. They almost seem to slither. Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since ...

This asteroid is classified as potentially hazardous due to its size and proximity. NASA and other agencies are tracking it using telescopes and radar. Monitoring helps in planetary defense planning.

Today: Cygnus the swan flies tonight. Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation, whose name means “tail” in Arabic, is two fists held upright and at arm’s length above due northeast at ...

The activity is expected to cause auroras and potential blackouts on Earth, with Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recently capturing the most powerful eruption of 2025 from a newly emerged ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system ...

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The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a grand star-forming area. Its pillars of dust and gas are nurseries for new stars, and thus it is a center of celestial activity. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372 ...

On May 13 and 14, NASA reported two separate solar flares that were ranked in the X-class, which marks the most intense flares, according to the agency. The flare on May 13 was classified as an X1 ...

As Nacho pointed out a few weeks ago, 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of NASA’s qualification of the Speedmaster for use in space. As you’ve probably noticed, there’s no new Omega Speedmaster ...

Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008, for the first time in 9,000 years. NASA satellites that monitor changes in vegetation near volcanoes could aid in earlier eruption warnings.

Maybe not: A new study reports 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions. Specifically, scientists looked in the cleanrooms used to prepare ...