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Odysseus on the Moon. The photo shows a piece of a landing gear leg that has broken off. Credit: Intuitive Machines

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Odysseus traveled to the Moon, broke its leg, and still pinged Earth to tell the story

A map of the celestial hemisphere compiled from data from the eROSITA telescope — the colors reflect the wavelengths of X-rays. Hot gas haloes surrounding galaxy clusters have broad-band emissions (white), as do black holes (white dots); diffuse emissions have long wavelengths (red); and in the central regions of the Milky Way, dust blocks longer-wavelength emissions, so that only short-wavelength X-rays are visible (blue or black).

Cosmology, Science

Dazzling sky survey maps 5,259 galaxy clusters and sheds light on dark matter

Earth, as seen from space. The most recent leap day before 2024 was in 2020.. Credit: NASA.

Why do we need a leap day? So it doesn’t snow in the ‘summer’

The Celestron NexStar 8SE automatically locates and tracks objects.

7 of the best telescopes available at High Point Scientific

A microscopic image of a tardigrade.

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

What happened to those tardigrades sent to the Moon?

A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive Mount Erciyes volcano, is active again! Credit: Kayseri Erciyes A.Ş. Ski Resort.

Astronomy invites you to view the Perseids from an inactive Turkish volcano

An artist's depiction of the rotation of hydrogen in a galaxy shows a round collection of colors to indicate the position of gases relative to the observer.

Galaxies, Science

Astronomers accidentally find a galaxy that hasn’t birthed any stars

An illustration of the dwarf planets Makemake and Eris.

Alien Life, Science, Solar System

Distant worlds Eris and Makemake unveil surprisingly active natures to the world’s largest space telescope

Supernova 1987A, imaged by the Hubble and JWST. The faint blue source in the centre is the emission detected with the JWST/NIRSpec instrument. The bright stars to the left and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope WFPC-3/James Webb Space Telescope NIRSpec/J. Larsson

Exotic Objects, Stars

JWST’s new look at Supernova 1987A reveals a neutron star

This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth.

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Isolation and annoying co-workers: Solving the stress of a trip to Mars

Vaonis’ Vespera is a portable smart scope that can be used for night — or day — sky viewing.

Telescopes and Equipment

Vaonis’ Vespera smart scope reviewed