Stars appear to twinkle because the light from these distant objects passes through wobbly air in the atmosphere.

Image: Cosmic manatee accelerates particles from head

The Perseverance team says the rover can still take key weather measurements after pebbles struck a wind sensor amid strong Red Planet gusts.

Earth will be the farthest from the sun on Monday (July 4) as it reaches aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT).

The James Webb Space Telescope’s powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system’s early life.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

It’s clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

One of the instrument’s early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.