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(Image credit: Miguel Claro) Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical “Skyscapes” […]

An early concept image of SpaceX’s lunar cargo lander, which NASA will need to deliver 26,000 to 33,000 pounds of payload to the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA has chosen SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver a lunar rover and habitat on the Moon within the next decade. The space agency last week announced that it

The Sombrero galaxy (M104) is located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) once again shows off its infrared capabilities in new images of the famous Sombrero galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 104. By resolving the thick dust clouds in the outer disk

(Image credit: Pocket Books/Star Trek ) It’s been pretty quiet except for the crickets in the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” frontier lately, and after a NYCC Season 3 update at Paramount+’s Star Trek Universe Panel this past October that included a thrilling clip of the Enterprise engaging with Gorn attack ships, we haven’t heard much

An artist’s impression of a lander on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa. (Image credit: NASA) Artificial intelligence is being developed to provide a robotic brain for a future NASA mission to land on the icy surface of one of the solar system’s ocean moons, such as Europa or Enceladus. The autonomous software is being developed

(Image credit: Yuga Kurita/Getty Images) “Where is everybody?” That famous phrase, uttered over lunch by eminent physicist Enrico Fermi, perfectly encapsulated what has since become known as the Fermi paradox: If life happened here on Earth and the universe tends to not do things only once, then life should also occur elsewhere. In fact, the

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of a hill called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS) On Mars, some of the most likely places to look for traces of ancient life may also be the least likely to preserve those traces. This is the result

A rocket launches above the Christmas tree during a tree lighting ceremony at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Dec. 4, 2024. (Image credit: U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Joshua LeRoi) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shined above a twinkling Christmas tree like a festive tree topper during last week’s holiday lighting ceremony at Vandenberg Space Force

An illustration shows the creation of antihyperhydrogen-4 in a collision between two nulcei of lead. (Image credit: Janik Ditzel for the ALICE collaboration) The world’s most massive science experiment has done it again, detecting hints of the heaviest antimatter particle ever found. This means the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator ever

A dust storm shrouds the surface of Mars, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI) The weather report from Mars may soon come with a forecast for dust storms, following the discovery that, in 78% of cases, a Red Planet dust storm is preceded by an unusually high amount of