SEATTLE – As Tahlequah carries her dead calf, scientists studying the endangered southern residents are concerned for the mother orca. On Christmas Eve it was confirmed she gave birth to a ...

A solar eclipse crossed North America ... Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work ...

And hey, the Sun is still mighty active, and the cosmos does still owe us another fine comet. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS captured over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National ...

“We have never had such a big telescope imaging so wide and so deep.” Anais Möller, astrophysicist, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Beyond our solar system, Rubin ...

which has aligned with the arrival of a massive new solar telescope and two separate spacecraft, all designed to tease apart the mysteries of how the sun works. “This year has been amazing ...

Julia Coronado, founder and president of MacroPolicy Perspectives, discusses why she’s waiting to make economic predictions for 2025 and takes a look back at the economic year that’s been.

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth ... in the forming of new stars and new solar systems — once those stars die. A planet like Earth ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ... It's explored our own solar system, studied the atmospheres of distant planets ...

Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday) after it had been out of communication for several days during its burning-hot ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 ...

Each night this month, Venus climbs a bit further away from the setting sun. Telescope observers will notice that Venus’s apparent shape changes from 57% “half-moon” to a fat crescent at 37% ...

The Coronado shoreline has been added to the list of areas closed due to ongoing concerns about contaminated water flowing in from the Tijuana River, San Diego County said Wednesday.