Red dots are the Orionids, blue dots are the Taurids meteor showers. Electronic Telegram No. 5758 Central Bureau for ...

This week, we see Earth’s auroras, a spacecraft’s view of our planet, and a pioneering photograph of the Orion Nebula.

We explore how we observe changing worlds and skies, from the dark skies above Paranal and the shifting waters of the ...

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

September 29, 2026, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute has welcomed three new postdoctoral fellows: Mino Fellow L. Felipe Benites and Frank Drake Fellows Genesis Berlanga and Dingshan Deng. Their ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

For decades, astronomers have been looking for moons beyond our Solar System. Several exomoon candidates have been proposed, but none has become an unambiguous, confirmed example. This object differs ...

Full sun views from different NASA solar cameras of a failed solar eruption from data collected in March 2024. Credit: Tingyu Gou A solar eruption begins to rise from the Sun. Then, instead of ...

September 8, 2026, Mountain View, CA— The next breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may come not from a radio telescope, but from a microscope. A new study led by SETI ...

A stony meteorite in NASA Ames Research Center's Arcjet Interaction Heating Facility. A thin black line outlines the holder that supports the stone (left). Air flow is from left to right. Melt flows ...