Our expert thinks this portable Celestron telescope will delight beginners and younger stargazers
The perfect instrument for introducing beginner astronomers to the moon and stars
APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland
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A Sunflower’s View of Totality
The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.
Synchronized star pairs unleash radio bursts via a Jupiter-Io-like mechanism
Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particular class of objects observed comes in …
Proposed 900-telescope array could detect an Earth-like exoplanet's atmosphere in a single transit
What do you do when the observation you need comes around once a year? Well, preparation is key, but this is the awkward truth about finding another Earth. When a planet crosses t…
TESS discovers a rare brown dwarf orbiting a massive, aging star
For decades, astronomers lumped brown dwarfs into a single category defined by mass alone—too big to be classified as planets but too small to become stars. However, this definiti…
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke retires after 30 years at the space agency
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has retired from NASA after 30 years of public service, leaving behind a legacy of accomplishments and leadership including two-time commander of the In…
Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light years into deep space
That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.
NASA’s 737 Reveals New Paint
NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modifications for use as a reduced gravity test aircraft for the agency. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Resear…
For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too
Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things science fiction, Fletcher Newell had an early interest in space exploration. That interest only grew wh…
What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars
Detecting water where none remains today: Neutron and X-ray tomography make it possible. In an international study conducted with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute …
NASA's canceled lunar space station tech will help build the Artemis moon base
Northrop Grumman plans to take technology built into the HALO module for NASA's canceled lunar space station and repurpose it to help develop the Artemis moon base.
'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' is 'the horror movie that we really wanted to make' (interview)
Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files", is revisiting the 2008 film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" in an new R-rated director's cut coming to Hulu on Aug. 14.
How to image the planets with a telescope and camera
Follow our step-by-step tutorial to photographing Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus
Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027
Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to February 2027. The company hasn't been to space since June 2024.
The Perseid meteor shower peak was spectacular: Here are our favorite photos
The Perseid meteor shower never disappoints, and we've got some great photos this year to prove it.
Perseids Meteor Shower
The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. The Perseids – one of the year’s brightest and …
Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space photo of the day for Aug. 13, 2026
This photo, snapped just as the Aug. 12 solar eclipse was about to enter its totality phase, really captures the drama of the moment.
On this day in space! Aug. 13, 2014: Game-changing WorldView-3 Earth-observing satellite launches to orbit
The WorldView-3 Earth-observing satellite.
Number One's doppelganger in 'Strange New Worlds'' latest episode is part of a long line of 'Star Trek' lookalikes
Haven't we seen your face before? On the final frontier, your identical face twin is never far away…
Active supermassive black holes may help form massive planets
A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners, sucking in everything around them. But Wladimir Lyra's research found a new mechanism around s…
When is the next solar eclipse? Mark your calendar for an upcoming 'ring of fire' and the 'eclipse of the century'
You thought 2026 was a good year for solar eclipses? Just wait until 2027…
New private 'Perceptor' probes will keep an eye on satellites high above Earth
Astranis' newly announced Perceptor spacecraft will monitor satellite activity in geostationary orbit, a distant and increasingly contested domain.
APOD: 2026 August 13 – Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
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