A star dies in the Cat’s Eye | Space photo of the day for March 10, 2026

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

China’s 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a ‘geological museum’ on the lunar near side

A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for China’s first crewed moon landing mission, which the nation wants to achieve by 2030.

The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime: Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions

The catalog of gravitational waves “heard” by LIGO, KAGRA and Virgo has doubled with detections of spacetime ripples.

Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: ‘The timing was extremely lucky’

The ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.

NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun

New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the motion of Dimorphos around its larger companion, Didymos; the crash also shifted the orbit of both asteroids around the Sun. Linked together by gravity, Didymos and Dimorphos orbit each […]

Cosmic Hawk spreads its wings| Space photo of the day for March 6, 2026

The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.

Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet’s oldest cratered regions

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet’s oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.

Good news for the moon: Famous asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t smash into it in 2032

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

Making hummus on the moon? Scientists just grew chickpeas in simulated lunar dirt

Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but are they edible?

Astronomers unveil largest 3D universe map of its kind, illuminating ‘hidden’ cosmic structures

Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast “sea of light” between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.