On Aug. 12, 2026, the moon’s shadow will sweep across northern Spain, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, creating a rare sunset total solar eclipse. For a few fleeting minutes and seconds, the sun will be completely blocked, revealing its delicate outer atmosphere — the corona — as the landscape is bathed in an eerie twilight.
Spain offers an exciting opportunity to experience…
Astronomers have unveiled one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever created, offering an expansive new tool to explore how the universe evolved across billions of years.
Produced by the FLAMINGO project — short for Full-hydro Large-scale structure…
A new ion engine has been tested in a lab, proving itself to be 25 times more powerful than NASA’s current state-of-the-art one. This advanced technology could one day assist humans in reaching Mars.
Ion engines are very different to the usual sort of thrusters that burn…
Don't miss the Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2026 peak tonight! Viewing times, locations and tips
May 6, 2026
Heads up, skywatchers! Don’t miss the Eta Aquarid meteor shower tonight, as activity peaks in the predawn hours of May 6.
Under ideal conditions, it’s possible to see up to 60 meteors per hour when viewing from the Southern Hemisphere, but viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will see significantly fewer due to the Eta Aquarid radiant (the point in the sky the meteors appear to streak from)…
With the Artemis 2 crew back home after their historic circumlunar voyage, attention now turns to getting astronauts back on the surface of the moon. But how are the landers that will make such an ambitious endeavor possible progressing?
NASA recently outlined a revised plan…
An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the galaxies and galaxy clusters in our corner of the cosmos.
The Vela…
The peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is almost here! Read on to discover the best time to spot the fast-moving shooting stars as Earth barrels through the debris trail shed by Halley’s Comet.
When are the Eta Aquarids most active?
In 2026, the Eta Aquarids are active from April 19 to May 28 and come to a broad peak overnight on May 5-6. Your best chance to spot shooting stars will be during…
In its infancy, the universe had a bit of an identity crisis.
For the first few hundred million years, the vast cosmic gas between galaxies was primarily a chilly, dense affair. But then, it seemed to wake up, deciding to get all warm and fuzzy.
This strange shift in the…
The June full moon occurs at 7:57 p.m. EDT (2357 GMT) on June 29. That’s when the lunar disk will pass opposite the sun in Earth’s sky, appearing fully lit by the sun’s rays.
This month’s full moon is also known as the “Strawberry Moon,” reflecting the time of…
NASA has released a pair of sweeping new panoramas from its two active Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, offering a vivid look at how dramatically different regions of the Red Planet can be — and how each mission is uncovering a distinct chapter of Martian history.
The newly released images showcase starkly different landscapes, captured thousands of miles apart by the two robots, which…
