Sky and Solar

The 'eclipse of the century' will plunge these 8 wonders of the Roman Empire into darkness on Aug. 2, 2027
12 November 2026

Ancient Roman cities, temples and amphitheaters across the Mediterranean will fall into the moon's shadow during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 2, 2027.
Astronomers stunned after James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest pair of black hole-powered quasars
12 November 2026

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the oldest pair of black hole-powered quasars ever seen. There's just one problem: they shouldn't exist!
SpaceX launches 2nd mystery mission for US Space Force in 6-day span (video, photos)
12 November 2026

SpaceX launched a classified mission for the U.S. Space Force from California tonight (Nov. 11), the second such mission for the company in a six-day span.
NASA kick-starts a fresh push to bring Mars samples home
11 November 2026

NASA is kickstarting a new initiative for Mars Sample Return (MSR), called the Perseverance Sample Retrieval Architecture.
We can't see Fast Radio Bursts but we can now hear them thanks to a Finnish Cathedral
11 November 2026

Fast radio bursts are invisible, but a composer has turned thousands of them into sound at a Finnish cathedral, where a choir will sing along on Nov. 21.

Hera closes in on the asteroid DART impacted
09 November 2026

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Hera spacecraft has returned its first close-up view of the Didymos asteroid system, marking the beginning of an ‘asteroid autopsy’ to discover what NASA’s DART impact really did to the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022.
Happy New Year, Mars! The Red Planet is turning 39
29 September 2026

On 30 September the Red Planet officially begins Mars Year 39. Which is quite an achievement for a world that is actually more than 4.5 billion years old.
3I/ATLAS was born in the deep freeze
08 September 2026

Another piece of evidence suggests that this visitor formed in the bitterly cold outer reaches of a distant planetary system.
Roman Space Telescope launches on mission to survey the Universe
30 August 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space, starting a mission that will survey the Universe on an unprecedented scale in search of clues to dark energy, dark matter and worlds beyond our Solar System.
JWST’s ‘impossible’ early galaxies may be even more massive than we thought
24 August 2026

Faint, low-mass stars could be hiding much of the mass in distant galaxies, making the surprisingly large galaxies discovered by JWST in the early Universe even harder to explain.
How to observe the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse
07 August 2026

On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, producing a striking solar eclipse. Find out how, when and where to observe it safely.