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Best telescopes this holiday season: Observe stars, galaxies and nebulas
Buying Guide These are the best telescopes for stargazing and astronomy this holiday season with top models from Unistellar, Celestron and ZWO.
Hear dust devils on Mars crackle with electricity in new NASA Perseverance rover video
For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere.
China breaks record with 3 Long March rocket launches in 19-hour stretch (video)
China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff cadence.
The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.
This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen. Could it be from an elusive class of black hole?
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."
SpaceX launches mysterious NROL-77 mission for the US military (video)
SpaceX launched the NROL-77 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Dec. 9), sending a classified satellite skyward from Florida's Space Coast.
Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during 8-hour spacewalk (video)
Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9).
1st human missions to Mars should hunt for signs of life, report says
Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies.
