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This Chappell Roan song boosted interest in a Canadian dark sky preserve by 1,800%

8 hours 40 min ago
Chappell Roan mentioned Canada's Saskatchewan just days before Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park hosts a "star party" festival in its dark-sky park.
Categories: Astronomy

New tactical roguelite game 'Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes' sees you escape the Cylons with a full fleet of spaceships (video)

9 hours 40 min ago
Battlestar Galactica meets FTL in this just-announced "story-rich tactical roguelite" from the makers of Crying Suns.
Categories: Astronomy

Russia launches mice, microbes and more on monthlong mission to Earth orbit (video)

10 hours 14 min ago
Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies and other organisms to orbit to learn more about the health effects of spaceflight.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch a bright fireball explode above Japan, turning night to day (video)

10 hours 40 min ago
A fireball exploded into life in the skies above Japan on Aug. 19, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting close to the horizon.
Categories: Astronomy

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars

11 hours 40 min ago
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, not the "smorgasbord of priorities," like climate science, the agency has been directing its resources.
Categories: Astronomy

Pragmata rethinks sci-fi shooter combat, and it owes a lot to Snake (preview)

12 hours 40 min ago
After five years, Pragmata could have been unambitious, but instead, it's a fascinating and innovative sci-fi game with heaps of potential.
Categories: Astronomy

South Korea's K-RadCube radiation satellite will hitch a ride on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission

13 hours 40 min ago
South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch toward the moon on the Artemis 2 mission next year.
Categories: Astronomy

Astronauts get stuffy noses in space because of microgravity, scientists find

14 hours 40 min ago
Scientists are calling attention to an extremely common health problem that's been making astronauts uncomfortable: sinus issues.
Categories: Astronomy

Semiconductor wafer on ISS goes under the microscope | Space photo of the day for Aug. 20, 2025

15 hours 40 min ago
This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.
Categories: Astronomy

'Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4' revealed, with a new developer promising a return to 'mass-battle, base-building roots' (video)

16 hours 40 min ago
Warhammer 40K's most iconic real-time strategy series is back next year and under new leadership.
Categories: Astronomy

Nocs Provisions Zero Tube 10x25 waterproof monocular review

17 hours 15 min ago
Your new favorite lightweight spotting companion — the Noca Provisions Zero Tube.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX partners with astronomers to protect radio astronomy from satellite interference

17 hours 40 min ago
An automated system co-developed by SpaceX prevents disruption to radio astronomical observations caused by megaconstellations in low Earth orbit.
Categories: Astronomy

The Milky Way's faintest satellite may not be what astronomers thought. 'These results solve a major mystery in astrophysics'

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 5:00pm
A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe.
Categories: Astronomy

Supernovas are hard to detect. Scientists just found a way to spot them hours after they explode

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 4:15pm
Astronomers have learned how to find supernova explosions in their earliest stages, giving us an unprecedented look at how these stars blow up.
Categories: Astronomy

Pixar's 'Elio' stars get space food tips from a real-life astronaut in this exclusive bonus clip (video)

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 3:14pm
The family-friendly animated outer space flick scores its home video release starting today (Aug. 19).
Categories: Astronomy

'NASA is science': How real space exploration inspired Moleskine's new NASA-themed notebook collection (interview)

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 3:00pm
We chatted to Moleskine President Ward Simmons about their new NASA-inspired notebook collection.
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists find tiny new moon around Uranus with the James Webb Space Telescope (photos, video)

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 12:58pm
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun.
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See a razor-thin crescent moon join Jupiter and Venus in the predawn sky on Aug. 20

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 12:23pm
See the waning crescent moon rendezvous with Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky on Aug. 20.
Categories: Astronomy

A rare Black Moon rises with the sun on Aug. 23: Here's what to expect

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 10:45am
A Black Moon rises Aug. 23, though you won't see it. Its timing makes it a rare lunar event.
Categories: Astronomy

Wheelie smart? Take our Mars rover quiz to prove it!

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 10:16am
This quiz is dedicated to the mechanical marvels that have rolled across the surfaces of alien worlds: the iconic space rovers!
Categories: Astronomy