Stars do not actually flicker; Earth's turbulent atmosphere makes them appear to. Here is why stars twinkle, why planets do not, and what twinkling tells you about tonight's observing conditions.
Archive: 2026
302 stories published in 2026
Perseverance has confirmed an ancient lake and river delta in Jezero Crater, found water-formed minerals and intriguing organics, flown a helicopter, and made oxygen from Martian air. Here is the mission so far.
Stellarium, Sky Tonight, SkySafari, and others all map the sky, but they suit different beginners. Here is how they compare on price, ease of use, offline mode, and depth, and which one to start with.
About $786M converted into ETH and TRX before the freezes helps explain why Elliptic estimates about $3.33B remains beyond issuer control.
Your phone can catch a meteor streak if you steady it, widen the view, and let it shoot continuously through the peak hours.
Webb and Hubble photograph the same universe in different kinds of light, which is why their images of the same objects can look strikingly different.
Lagrange points are spots where gravity and motion balance, and the L2 point behind Earth is why Webb can keep its sunshield pointed at the Sun.
A great first dark-sky trip needs dark skies, safe access, and a simple plan — not the most remote desert you can find on a map.
Artemis is NASA's step-by-step return to the Moon: an uncrewed test, a crewed flyby, then a landing — each mission building on the last.
When an exoplanet crosses its star, starlight filters through its atmosphere — and water leaves a fingerprint in that light.
Falcon Heavy is the proven heavy lifter of today; Starship is the fully reusable giant designed to make heavy lift routine — they answer different questions.
The Moon is actually slightly farther away at moonrise — its giant size near the horizon is a trick your brain plays, not optics.
Most first-telescope regrets come from chasing magnification, not aperture — here's how to buy a scope you'll actually use.
Light takes about 1.28 seconds to travel from the Moon to Earth, and about 8 minutes 20 seconds from the Sun to Earth. When you look at the Moon you see it as it was 1.28 seconds ago, and sunlight left the Sun over 8 minutes ago.
The Leonids peak on the night of 16–17 November 2026, with fast, bright meteors best seen after midnight — here is how to watch them without any equipment.
Afocal photography — holding your phone camera to a telescope eyepiece — turns a basic scope into a Moon camera. Here is the setup, settings and editing workflow.
Mars is red because of rust — but a 2025 study says the rust is ferrihydrite, a water-formed mineral, not dry hematite. That changes what the colour tells us.
NASA's revised Mars Sample Return plan aims to bring Perseverance's sealed tubes to Earth in the 2030s at roughly half the original cost. Here is how it would work.
Webb's infrared spectra show 3I/ATLAS carries tiny, dust-rich water-ice grains and methane far heavier than any local comet's — clues to a star system older than our Sun.
Visible light cannot escape a stellar nursery, but Webb's infrared eyes can. Here is how it revealed more than 130 young stars inside NGC 7129 and W51.
The ISS is the third-brightest object in the night sky and needs no equipment — just the right twilight window, a clear horizon and a pass prediction for your city.
On 28 September 2026 Starship reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 full-size Starlink satellites. Here is what Flight 14 proved — and what it did not.
Starship's Raptor engines burn liquid methane and oxygen — not kerosene — because methane burns cleaner, can be made on Mars, and suits a fully reusable rocket.
Webb's study of dusty young star systems shows Mars-sized bodies smashing together — the same kind of collision scientists believe built our Moon.