Firefly spacecraft provides striking view of Earth on top of Earth

You are seeing double. Firefly Aerospace‘s moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing…

Curiosity recorded alien rainbow-colored clouds sweeping over Mars

Watch them fly over the robot's “head.” A rover got a new view of some peculiar extraterrestrial clouds, flecked in…

2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy

A galactic record. For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In…

Think this space station and moon photo is AI? Meet the photographer.

It's real, and spectacular. The International Space Station is nowhere close to the moon, which is about 1,000 times farther…

Webb telescope has a new mission: surveillance of a threatening asteroid

“We have to do our due diligence.” The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the…

Scientists seek to tempt aliens out of hiding with chemical in blood

What's lurking in the Martian soil? Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant…

'Large' asteroid's odds of hitting Earth went up. But not why you think.

“It's not surprising the percentage went up.” It’s certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth…

Astronomers found a monstrous jet powering through the early universe

It set a new cosmic record. Scientists have found a quasar spewing a gigantic radio jet in space at a…

Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass

And that's not all Gaia detected. A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along…

This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find

“Nothing like that of Earth.” The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems.…