With the number of exoplanets having recently passed the 6,000 mark, astronomers are busy preparing for many thousands more in the coming years, with underutilized planet-finding techniques about to come to the fore to add the deluge from transit surveys.
“We’ve found 6,000 planets, but none of them are like Earth,” said Aurora Kesseli, an astronomer at Caltech who works on…
Embrace the Dark Side with $80 off this spectacular Star Wars Ahsoka electronic lightsaber
October 9, 2025
Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 is taking its time arriving on Disney Plus, two years after the last series ended. If that’s got you raging, then why not surrender to the dark side with $80 off this Star Wars: Ashoka Black Series Baylan Skoll Force FX Lightsaber?
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A majestic Harvest Supermoon graced the night sky on Oct. 6-7, putting on a spectacular show as it loomed large and bright over the eastern horizon at moonrise with Saturn close to its right among the stars of the constellation Pisces.
The closest full moon to the autumn…
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October 8, 2025
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China is developing the capability to remove space debris from orbit, according to a top official.
In recent years, China’s space activities have grown tremendously, with an operational space station in low Earth orbit (LEO), a greatly increased rate of launches and…
NASA’s spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system’s largest celestial body (aside from the sun), may already be switched off, but the space agency won’t say.
The Juno probe launched in 2011 and entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016…
October’s full Harvest Moon looms large over the eastern horizon at sunset tonight! Here’s what you need to know before the first supermoon of 2025 rises to dominate the night sky with a magnificent display of moonlight.
The full moon phase will occur at 11:48 p.m. EDT on Oct. 6 (0348 GMT Oct. 7), when the lunar disk will appear fully-lit opposite the sun in Earth’s sky, shining…
The exoplanet revolution at 30: 1st alien world was found around a sun-like star three decades ago
October 7, 2025
Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very first exoplanet to be discovered around a sun-like star was revealed. Called 51 Pegasi b, it was a world like nothing we had ever seen before: a gas giant planet similar to Jupiter, but so close to its star that its year lasts just…
Europe teams with Japan on asteroid mission, beefs up space cooperation with South Korea
October 6, 2025
SYDNEY — Europe is deepening cooperation with South Korea and Japan as it looks to expand its international cooperation activities on Earth and in space.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) signed a memorandum of understanding…
Northern lights may get stronger within the next 2 years as the sun enters a turbulent decline with a 'last gasp' finale
October 6, 2025
We may have passed the peak of solar maximum, but that doesn’t mean the aurora season is winding down. In fact, the years after solar maximum can be some of the most exciting for skywatchers.
Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov describes one potential late-cycle outburst as the sun’s “last gasp”, a dramatic finale that could trigger powerful geomagnetic storms and…
