NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retired in December 2025 after a remarkable 27-year career. She completed three missions aboard the ISS, spending 608 days in space and conducting nine spacewalks ...

Everyone on Instagram, these days, seems to be jumping on the ‘post a picture from 2016’ trend. Digging into nostalgia, many ...

Using that as a jumping-off point, my wife and I love to take the kids to local museums and cultural festivals, and we have ...

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the ...

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His fortnightly column mixed scholarship with lived experiences, in which all the full stops were at the right place Sir Mark ...

The sun will also generate buzz with a ring-of-fire eclipse at the bottom of the world in February and a total solar eclipse at the top of the world in August. Expect more auroras in unexpected places ...

Looking for a telescope for the moon? We recommend the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as the best for basic astronomy in our best beginner's telescope guide. The January 2026 full moon is upon ...

Running for nearly a century, this quiet experiment proves a “solid” can flow, drop by drop, while generations of scientists ...

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers ...