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Best telescopes for beginners 2025: Start your stargazing journey with our pick of the best beginner-friendly telescopes.
Buying Guide Ready to start your astronomy journey? We've rounded up the best telescopes, in time for March's amazing total lunar eclipse.
How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer
Scientists have discovered more about the process that causes black holes to "leak" energy to their surroundings, finding the faster they spin, the more energy is extracted.
Lunar Google Doodle celebrates February's third quarter moon with interactive card game
Google's latest Doodle celebrates February's last quarter moon with a fun interactive card game.
'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong
The Wachowskis' attempt at reenergizing the space opera genre is widely considered to be a low point in their career, but maybe we were too harsh?
Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets
Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.
The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars'
The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images)
Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.
NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360
Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just days after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.
