Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have punched a hole in a house in Georgia
The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.
How a fake astronaut fooled the world, broke women’s hearts, and landed in jail
For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anything but.
More than 1,800 National Science Foundation workers abruptly kicked out of agency headquarters
National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.
Upcoming DC movies: Superman, Supergirl, Clayface, The Batman Part II & beyond
Superman is spearheading DC's big reboot in the realm of movies and TV, but what's coming next? And which projects are confined to elseworlds?
Astronomers discover baby planets taking their 1st steps in nearby stellar nursery (images)
Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the star-forming region of Ophiuchus.
See a vivid green fireball light up the northeastern US (video)
The fireball was visible from several states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
A star exploded in the Lupus constellation. Here’s how to see the nova in the night sky this month
V462 Lupi will soon vanish from the night sky, but before it does, the dark skies around the new moon present a perfect time to head away from city lights to hunt down the light from this ancient nova.
Alien life could survive deadly stellar radiation, Earth’s desert lichen reveal
A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.
Rubin Observatory takes its 1st look at the night skies | Space photo of the day for June 26, 2025
The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.
Cosmic images from the world’s largest digital camera are so big they require a ‘data butler’
The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, but handling that much information poses a severe challenge.