Space exploration, astronomy & astrophotography news
The SETI Institute has completed the most extensive radio search ever conducted on an interstellar object, scanning comet 3I/ATLAS across a broad swath of the radio spectrum for any sign of extraterrestrial technology. After analyzing nearly 74 million narrowband radio signals over seven hours of observations, the result is […]
First Sugar Ever Found in Interstellar Space — A Four-Carbon Molecule That Could Rewrite the Origin of Life The Galactic Center molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027, where erythrulose was detected, imaged by the IRAM 30m telescope. Credit: IRAM / Jimenez-Serra et al. Astronomers have detected a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space […]
From a Balcony in the Netherlands: Astrophotographer Captures 548 Galaxies in a Single Frame An amateur astrophotographer has accomplished what sounds impossible: capturing 548 individual galaxies in a single image — from the balcony of his home in a small Dutch village. Ing. Cornelis Van Zuilen, an astrophotographer based […]
Sun Erupts with 3 Colossal Solar Flares in Less Than 24 Hours — G3 Storm Watch Issued, Aurora Chances Surge The Sun is putting on a spectacular show this week. Active Region 4455 — a magnetically complex sunspot cluster rotating across the Earth-facing solar disk — unleashed three powerful […]
China’s Long March 12B Rocket Launches Without Warning — A New Falcon 9-Class Contender Emerges China’s rapidly expanding commercial space sector delivered a genuine surprise this week. On June 1, 2026, the Long March 12B — a 72-meter-tall, kerosene-burning rocket strikingly similar in concept to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 — […]
Meteor Explosion Over New England Packed Power of 300 Tons of TNT, NASA Confirms A blinding daytime fireball that lit up the skies over the Northeastern United States last week was confirmed by NASA to be a meteor explosion releasing energy equivalent to roughly 300 tons of TNT — […]
Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory Mark II Review: Smart Astrophotography, Simplified Verdict: 4/5 Stars — A Turnkey Gateway to Deep-Sky Imaging The Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory Mark II earns a solid 4 out of 5 stars. At $4,299 (~£3,211 GBP), it is unapologetically premium — but for the […]
Where to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse 2026 from Spain — 10 Best Spots On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, and the Atlantic before making landfall in northern Spain. The path of totality hits Spain’s east coast between Vilanova […]
Why Little Red Dots Don’t Vanish — They Grow Up One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s most bewildering discoveries finally has a clear explanation. The “Little Red Dots” — tiny, impossibly red objects blazing in the early universe — don’t mysteriously disappear from cosmic history. They simply grow […]
