Waxing Gibbous Moon
NASA The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time. The…
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SpaceX launch creates colorful ‘jellyfish’ in the night sky | Space photo of the day for July 10, 2026
A “space jellyfish” cloud lit up the early morning sky following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. (Image credit: SpaceX) Is it a space jellyfish? Is it an alien? No, it’s the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket launch! What is it?…
‘Silo’ season 3 showrunner Graham Yost explains the time jumps and turning half of the show into a political thriller (interview)
Apple TV’s riveting sci-fi series, “Silo,” is stretching its narrative legs for its third and penultimate season. Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) deals with amnesia after her fiery return to Silo 18, satisfying secrets are revealed, and we strap in for temporal…
Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024.…
NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) These four views were captured from a World War II-era aircraft in April 2026, when scientists used instruments aboard the plane to study Arctic sea ice. Their flights were…
Could evidence of life on Mars be hiding in clay? Europe wants to send a rover to check
Is there life on Mars … in clay? Scientists think that the minerals in clay could be the key to finding signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The European Space Agency is still working toward launching its ExoMars…
Take a trip to the turquoise waters of the Bahamas (from space) | Space photo of the day for July 9, 2026
Sandbars and waves of rippling sand dunes can be seen from space amongst the turquoise ocean in the Bahamas. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Williams) If you look at this picture for too long, you might start to hear the waves lapping…
Venus takes center stage with 2 easy-to-see sky shows this July. Here’s when and where to look
Between July 7 and July 17, Venus will put on two evening-sky shows: first passing close to Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the Lion, and then appearing near a waxing crescent moon. Both events are easy to see with…
‘This is the future of spatial intelligence’: Vantor unveils stunning 3D satellite views of Earth (photos)
The American Earth-observation company Vantor maps Earth from space in 3D. The images are available in near-real time, revealing immediate effects of natural disasters and armed conflict. What is more, the images are also absolutely stunning. Vantor, which operates a…
Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe. NASA, ESA, and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober…