22+ hour, 24+ min ago  (783+ words) By May Reardon, UniSQ Astronomy and Creative Writing student This month, UniSQ celebrates the 30th anniversary of the official opening of Mount Kent Observatory – a facility that has grown into one of Australia's leading centres for astronomical research and education. Yet…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (190+ words) Mirage News 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 waxing gibbous…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (171+ words) Mirage News 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. Several days…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (329+ words) The Sunrise III mission offers a completely new view of the sun. First results have now been published Launch of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III on July 10th, 2024. © SSC (Mattias Forsberg) A sunspot imaged by the SUSI instrument on Sunrise…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (748+ words) Mars was not always the cold, dry world we see today. Billions of years ago, scientists believe it may have been warm, wet, and wrapped in a much thicker atmosphere, creating conditions that could have supported simple microbial life. Even…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (527+ words) Mirage News Working for months with staff members in the Department of Physics, a group of students and faculty from Brown and RISD learned the art and science of high-precision optics to make their own powerful telescopes by hand. PROVIDENCE,…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (804+ words) Mirage News The Penn State Eberly College of Science's popular AstroFest program, a longtime outreach event offered by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, will welcome visitors to Davey Laboratory on the University Park campus from Wednesday, July 8, through Saturday,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (432+ words) Mirage News Red, white, and blue stars glitter like a sparkler being waved on a dark night in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NASA released this image to celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary, as the agency carries…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (238+ words) The new "U.S. National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe" gallery (link is external) is opening to the public July 1 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., in celebration of the museum's 50th anniversary (link is external). The gallery illuminates…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (612+ words) Mirage News In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images…...