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Fly over Xanthe Terra with Mars Express - YouTube Watch On If you've ever wanted to get lost on Mars, now's your chance: You can fly over a maze-like canyon on the Red Planet in a stunning new video from the European Space Agency (ESA).The animation, based on data from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, brings…

Two spacecraft on Mars have captured new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in the closest view that the European Space Agency (ESA) will get of the mysterious object, according to an ESA statement.The comet, which came from an unknown star system far beyond our own, is currently taking a months-long tour of the inner…

The Harvest Supermoon is the first of three supermoons in 2025. Here it is photographed rising behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City on Tuesday morning (Oct 7). (Image credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)A full Harvest supermoon shone big and bright last night, with photographers worldwide pointing their cameras to the…

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 TF (red crosshairs) came about as close to Earth as the International Space Station on Wednesday (Oct. 1), evading detection until hours later. (Image credit: ESA / Las Cumbres Observatory)A small asteroid zoomed past Earth closer than most satellites last week — and astronomers didn't notice it until hours later.The surprise…

If you're out just after dark Wednesday (Oct. 8), look up for a chance to spot "fireballs" as the annual Draconid meteor shower peaks.Although this meteor shower is predicted to produce only about 10 "shooting stars" per hour during its peak that evening, the Draconids are still a worthy skywatching event. That's because some of…

Tonight(Oct. 6) the first supermoon of 2025 will rise big and bright into the autumn sky. Dubbed the Harvest Moon — one of the most famous full moons of the year — it is the first full moon of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, traditionally used to mark the end of the harvest season.The moon…

Astronomers may be closing in on the age and origin of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it barrels toward the center of our solar system.A new study that models the last 4 million years of the comet's journey through the Milky Way hints that the interstellar visitor came from far, far away — potentially originating…

QUICK FACTSDate: Night of Oct. 5, 1923Where: Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, CaliforniaWho: Edwin HubbleOn the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe.Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena,…

Quick factsWhat it is: Eight "Einstein rings," officially known as gravitational lensesWhere it is: The deep skyWhen it was shared: Sept. 30, 2025As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, warped or even…

Gaia finds a huge wave sweeping through the Milky Way, We’ve got a launch date for Artemis II, lava tubes might have been found on Venus. And in Space Bites+, Venus’s clouds are mostly made of water.Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0ww7gIu3kDk