Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects
It is also theoretical. Astronomers infer the Oort Cloud is there because it’s the only logical explanation for the arrival of a certain class of comets that sporadically visit our solar system. The ...
New Hubble images show Jupiter’s Great Red Spot wiggles like gelatin
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.
Piece by Piece: How Pharrell Williams’ Lego Doc Came to Be
Fun fact: anything that’s animated in a Lego movie also has to be buildable. It’s a cute detail that actually proved to be a ...
Aurora australis makes stunning return to southern Australian skies
A spectacular display of the aurora australis lit up Tasmania’s night sky with people across the state flooding social media ...
From Orion Nebula to Crab Nebula: 7 mesmerising photos of Nebulae captured by NASA
The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054 AD, as likely ...