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Big cats, unexplained lights and a floodlit eclipse — 7 skywatching 'horror stories' to keep you entertained this Halloween
Stargazing doesn't always go to plan, and we have the stories to prove it.
Enormous 'Cat's Tail' tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away
Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for "painter"), there lies a strange structure that has puzzled astronomers f…
New tropical protea flowers expand floriculture opportunities across Hawaiʻi
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) have bred new "tropical" pincushion protea (Leucospermum) hybrids th…
Envía tu nombre a Titán a bordo de la misión Dragonfly de la NASA
Read this release in English here. Puede que nunca llegues a surcar los cielos bajo las nubes o sobre las arenas orgánicas de la luna Titán de Saturno, ¡pero tu nombre sí puede ha…
Grand Theft Astro: Stars' criminal histories could reshape estimates of their internal magnetic fields
Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in stellar evolution models, limiting their accuracy. Now, a …
Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their names aboard the agency’s Dragon…
NASA’s ISAM State of Play: The Industry Standard for Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing
When companies began approaching NASA’s Langley Research Center, asking to be included in the In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) State of Play for access to co…
NASA’s Hubble Marks Way for Roman Space Telescope
A sweeping barred galaxy takes center stage in this Oct. 22, 2026, image, but the gravitational lensing at bottom right is the real target. This observation is one of many gravita…
Theoretical method uses light to locate anyons, potential quantum computing building blocks
Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the "spectral fingerprints" of anyons—exotic quasiparticles that emerge from the collective…
New fossil scans challenge insect flight timeline, suggesting origins up to 80 million years later
A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects first appeared on Earth.
Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb
Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene. It lies within the vast Carina…
Museum specimens reveal shrinking flying foxes in Madagascar, with commercial hunting suspected
Flying foxes are the biggest bats in the world; they look like German shepherd puppies with 5-foot (1.5-meter) wingspans. But Madagascar's flying foxes are shrinking.
Ancient Alberta fish fossils reveal evolutionary secrets of modern species
Rare, complete fossils of ancient fish discovered in Alberta are helping fill in the gaps in our knowledge about which freshwater fish were living in North America at the end of t…
The universe in the eye of a telescope | Space photo of the day for Oct. 29, 2026
The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) keeps its eye on the cosmos decades after being decommissioned.
Modest gamma-ray flash followed by dazzling afterglow points to powerful stellar jet viewed off-axis
A cosmic explosion that announced itself with a modest flash of gamma rays went on to produce one of the brightest afterglows astronomers have recorded in the past 20 years. An in…
Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Jared Spiers
Jared Spiers had an interest in contributing to NASA’s mission long before becoming a civil servant for the agency. Growing up close to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Lo…
Using hydrogen to spark ammonia engines into life
"Ammonia was first used as a fuel during World War II, when gasoline was hard to get hold of," explains David Emberson, associate professor at NTNU's Department of Marine Technolo…
Amino acid boosts last-resort antibiotic's effectiveness
Worldwide, antibiotic resistance is associated with millions of deaths every year, and the World Health Organization warns that the number of resistant infections is rising. Colis…
The Slow, Surprising Death of EV Range Anxiety
A decade ago, an electric vehicle with more than 300 miles of range would have cost you nearly $100,000. Today, 300 miles of range sits in the middle of the market and consumers c…
SpaceX fires up Starship upper stage ahead of landmark Flight 15 test launch (video)
SpaceX just fired up all six engines on the Starship upper stage that will conduct the vehicle's 15th test flight, potentially keeping everything on track for a launch next month.
Smaller ants devote more of their resting energy budget to their brains
The energy required for brains of different sizes to function could play a role in how different species evolved over time. While the energetic costs of brains have long been deem…
First individual-based model of basking sharks replicates complicated social and environmental drivers of behavior
A new study published in Individual-Based Ecology presents the first individual-based model (IBM) of basking shark behavior.
Stunning solar eclipse photos reveal giant hole and mysterious 'smoke rings' in the sun's atmosphere
Solar eclipse photography provides a unique vista into the processes taking place in the sun's upper atmosphere.
Astronauts step out of the ISS for spacewalk – watch live
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk perform spacewalk to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROS…