See Venus, the moon and fiery star Aldebaran form a dawn triangle this weekend
Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.
Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra spacecraft: ‘The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great’
Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.
A lunar eclipse steals the show in a colorful sky | Space photo of the day for July 18, 2025
A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.
Who is Dr Roger Korby? A brief history of Christine Chapel’s new boyfriend in ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’
Dr Korby once crossed paths with Kirk's Enterprise, though he was a very different man at the time…
A doomed exoplanet is caught in a ‘death spiral’ around its star. Can it survive?
A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.
Scientists extracted water and oxygen from moon dust using sunlight. Could it work on the lunar surface?
Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.
What’s the deal with Lex Luthor’s pocket universe in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’?
Superman is full of awesome sci-fi elements, but the most fascinating one might be Lex Luthor's pocket dimension. How does that even work?
2 billion-year-old moon rock found in Africa reveals secret lunar history
The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.
A vast shadow will sweep over Saturn’s cloud tops early on July 18: Here’s how to see it
Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.
Best tabletop telescopes for stargazing in 2025
All of the telescopes here are easy to set up on a tabletop, making them an easy option for beginners and professional stargazers.