In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and try to observe a celestial object that’s quite difficult to see — the Horsehead Nebula. This dark nebula, made of dust and super-cold ...

It was a biting 10 degrees Fahrenheit the first night I saw the northern lights. My mom, who’d agreed to join my winter aurora chase in Iceland, watched the swirls cozied up in the car—but I ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars ...

Motor insurers paid out a record £11.7bn in car insurance claims in 2024, with the average cost of cover paid by drivers rising by £78 annually, according to data from the Association of British ...

"The Phoenix cluster has the largest reservoir of hot, cooling gas of any galaxy cluster." How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and catch the Moon as it passes by Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. This pairing will happen in the hours near dawn on ...

The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor reports the first space mission led by the U-M Department of Astronomy is scheduled to launch in 2029 with the support of a NASA grant worth $10 million. The ...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty could be drifting unseen in the outer solar system right now, new simulations suggest. The hefty cosmic interlopers ...