Red dots are the Orionids, blue dots are the Taurids meteor showers. Electronic Telegram No. 5758 Central Bureau for ...

This week, we see Earth’s auroras, a spacecraft’s view of our planet, and a pioneering photograph of the Orion Nebula.

We explore how we observe changing worlds and skies, from the dark skies above Paranal and the shifting waters of the ...

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Research Interest: Dr. Pavithraa Sundararajan is an experimental Astrochemist, currently a NASA Postdoctoral (NPP) Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Sundararajan’s current research focus at the ...

Dr. He is a SETI Postdoctoral Research Fellow and previously a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, working on the Kepler Reprocessing Project. His office remains at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Planets are usually associated with stars, but the physics of planet formation may not be limited to star systems. Their simulations suggest these objects could begin around Jupiter's mass and ...

This month, we turn our gaze outward to look back at Earth. SETI AIR Affiliate Artist Richelle Ellis and Lawrence Azerrad’s forthcoming book Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth brings ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this dramatic view of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau erupting on September 5, 2026. Rising from the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java, the volcanic island ...