The Orionid meteor shower peaks Thursday night. Here's how to watch colorful streaks and fireballs lighting up the sky.
A man stargazes at Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire as the Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak in October 2018.Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images The Orionids meteor shower peaks late Thursday night and into early...
NASA telescope images reveal brightest explosion ever recorded, as a star collapses into a black hole
An illustration shows a black hole driving powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light.NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde NASA space telescopes detected the brightest explosion ever recorded. Astronomers think the...
NASA and SpaceX to investigate whether Crew Dragon spaceship could drag Hubble Space Telescope further from Earth
The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and has provided humanity a front-row seat to the cosmos for more than three decades.NASA NASA, SpaceX, and a billionaire flying on the Crew Dragon spaceship are conducting a...
NASA is launching its new mega-rocket to shoot a spaceship around the moon this month. Here's what to expect.
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule atop, slowly makes its way down the crawlerway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on March 17, 2022.NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA's Space Launch...
Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth, due to 'forever chemicals' linked to cancer, study suggests
Eight-year-old Chelsea Symonds carries a bucket of collected rainwater in her family's yard in the drought-affected town of Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia, on February 17, 2020.Loren Elliott/Reuters Rainwater...
The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing.
A cyclist uses a cellphone to photograph a supermoon as it rises over Arguineguin, in the south of Gran Canaria, Spain, on May 26, 2021.Borja Suarez/Reuters The last supermoon of 2022 and the best meteor shower of the...
Photos suggest SpaceX, NASA, and China space junk struck land. There's a 10% chance a person will be hit this decade.
An object suspected to be a part of China's Long March 5B rocket, found on the island of Borneo, in Malaysia.Malaysia News Agency Space junk, apparently from China and a SpaceX NASA mission, fell to Earth and crashed on...
Beloved UK giant-vegetable gardener describes getting heat exhaustion while stranded in record-high temperatures
Gerald Stratford has built an online personality around the giant vegetables he grows in his garden.Gerald Stratford Gerald Stratford, an internet-famous retiree who grows giant vegetables, got stranded in a record heat...
7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
Details the James Webb Space Telescope revealed, thanks to its infrared cameras.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Insider NASA released the first full-color images from its new James Webb Space Telescope this week. JWST's...
NASA's first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope peers further back in time than any prior infrared lens, revealing 13 billion years of galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope's first deep field infrared image, released July 11, 2022.NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI President Joe Biden revealed the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on...
Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
An image from an engineering test of the James Webb Space Telescope, in mid-May 2022, offers a low-quality preview of images to come.NASA, CSA, and FGS team President Joe Biden is set to reveal the first full-color...
Illinois braces for out-of-state abortions to double or triple with Roe v. Wade overturned
Workers at a family planning clinic watch as thousands of abortion-rights demonstrators march past their clinic chanting support on their way downtown, on May 14, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson/Getty...
Despite mounting danger, Americans keep moving to the counties at highest risk for wildfires, floods, and droughts
Moving boxes sit in front of a new townhome, while other homes in the subdivision are still under construction as building material supplies are in high demand in Tampa, Florida, on May 5, 2021.Octavio...
NASA scientist arrested after chaining himself to Chase Bank as part of global climate protests
Police officers remove an activist from the Scientist Rebellion group blocking a bridge in central Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2022.Christian Mang/Reuters A NASA scientist and three others were arrested after chaining...
Scientists say climate solutions like solar power and walkable cities are cheap, doable, and can make a dent in the crisis
Solar panels are installed at a floating photovoltaic plant on a lake in Haltern, Germany, on Friday, April 1, 2022.Martin Meissner/AP Photo A major UN report offers a playbook for averting the worst effects of climate...
The ozone hole is set to heal by 2060 — a rare climate success story — but wildfires could slow its progress
NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large pyrocumulonimbus smoke cloud at about 30,000 feet.US Navy Photo provided by Dave Peterson, PhD, US Naval Research Laboratory Australian wildfires in 2019...
Ukrainian Americans watch in horror, unable to help their families, as Russia invades
Roman Trofymenko, Tanya, and a friend hold signs at San Francisco City Hall, February 24, 2022.Morgan McFall-Johnsen/Insider Ukrainian Americans are reeling after Russia began its invasion on Wednesday night. Many...
Hyped up 'moon cube' discovered by Chinese rover turns out to be a rabbit-shaped rock
The Yutu-2 rover zoomed in on the mysterious object in this image, revealing that it's just a rock.CNSA/CLEP/Our space China's Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, spotted a distant cube-shaped object last...