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From flares to auroras, discover how the sun’s peak activity may shape our skies in 2025. (Image credit: Created in Canva Pro by Daisy Dobrijevic) 2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? In April, a total solar eclipse was visible to millions in North America. This was […]

The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around Earth. (Image credit: NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a year-long observation challenge. Hubble launched to space on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, the space telescope has captured some of the

(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after an historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly 10 times closer to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the

(Image credit: NOAA/SWPC/GOES 16 via Spaceweather.gov) In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on Dec. 25 at 10:15 p,m. EST (0315 GMT on Dec. 26). Solar flares are

An illustration of the sun and moon in the sky as they will appear on Dec. 30, 2024. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) December 2024 will see a rare “black moon,” a term for the second new moon in a calendar month. The second new moon of December will occur at 5:27 p.m. ET (2227

Artemis 2 crew members Jeremy Hansen (from left), Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch will have to wait a few more months before flying around the moon and back. Credit: James Blair/NASA For the second time this year, NASA has pushed back its timeline for landing the first Americans on the Moon since the

Mars is on the cusp of becoming bigger and brighter than at any point since 2022. (Image credit: NASA/ESA, J. Bell (Cornell U.) and M. Wolff (SSI)) Jump to: Mars in opposition: What to know Mars at opposition: Observations Mars at opposition: Key dates Mars at opposition: Perihelic oppositions Mars at opposition: Missions Mars at

Experts predict that two giant white thunderstorms (circled) could end up diluting the rusty brown color of Jupiter’s Southern Equatorial Belt, which could make the region seemingly disappear. (Image credit: Michael Karrer) New photos have revealed a pair of gigantic white thunderstorms raging in one of Jupiter’s large reddish brown belts. The swirling storms, which

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, gives remarks during a NASA agencywide all hands, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Wendy Whitman Cobb is Professor

Jon Mesick’s custom wedding ring features a strip of flown-to-the-moon Apollo 11 polimide tape bordered on each side by a channel of lunar meteorite on a zirconium band. (Image credit: Honest Hands Ring Co.) For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick’s to have and