June’s full ‘Strawberry Moon’ illuminates the night sky next week: Here’s how to see it
Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10.
Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA’s moon and Mars efforts
Sen. Ted Cruz's newly unveiled legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill would dedicate almost $10 billion to win the new space race with China.
Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic ‘curtains’ on the sun’s surface
The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.
Best beginner binoculars 2025: Convenient, general use and affordable
These are the best beginner binoculars you can buy in every category, from the best overall and the best for stargazing to the best budget model.
Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week
The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.
European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater ‘soaked in layers of Martian history’ (photo)
The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.
Vast cosmic voids are far from empty — they’re hiding something dark
The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?
‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ is a battle across history that doesn’t dwell on the franchise’s past
The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.
A hidden ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone
With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.
Why does NASA’s Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?
NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.