Astronomy & Space News

Today's Astronomy News

If you are interested in astronomy, space and universe news you can read these here. We have several news sources like:

  • NASA - Published Content
  • NASA Image of the Day
  • Astronomy.com - Astronomy News
  • Sky & Telescope - Astronomy News
  • ScienceDaily - Astronomy News
You can get exciting news about Solar System, Galaxies, Stars, Planets, Asteroids and so on.

Select below the tab of the source news that you are interested in, or take a look to every source.


NASA - Published Content

    Source: NASA

  • Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene
    13 June 2025, 1:00 pm
    This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears peaceful, with its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred center. However, […]

  • NuSTAR Art + Coloring Pages
    13 June 2025, 12:21 am
    Art inspired by the NuSTAR Mission. A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PNG) Jun 12, 2025 PNG (187.75 KB) NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PDF) Jun 12, 2025 PDF (485.00 KB) Art inspired by the NuSTAR Mission. A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission. Downloads NuSTAR Coloring Page […]

  • NASA’s SLS Rocket: Booster Separation Motors
    12 June 2025, 9:08 pm
    NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters are the largest, most powerful solid propellant boosters to ever fly. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons of propellant every second, each booster generates 3.6 million pounds of a thrust for a total of 7.2 million pounds: more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial […]

  • Far Out
    12 June 2025, 8:41 pm
    Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The brightest object in the picture was once thought to be a single star with an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar […]

  • NASA’s Hurricane Science, Tech, Data Help American Communities
    12 June 2025, 7:48 pm
    With hurricane season underway, NASA is gearing up to produce cutting-edge research to bolster the nation’s readiness and response to severe weather.

  • NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast
    12 June 2025, 7:46 pm
    Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could aid wastewater detection. An instrument built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory  to map minerals on Earth is now revealing clues about water quality. A recent study found that EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) […]

  • NASA, Museum to Launch Junior Pilot School for Young Innovators
    12 June 2025, 7:42 pm
    A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the Flight Test Museum Foundation will launch the 2025 Junior Test Pilot School. Held at Blackbird Airpark and Joe Davies […]

  • NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds
    12 June 2025, 6:02 pm
    NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […]

  • NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter
    12 June 2025, 5:48 pm
    A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027 and produces vast surveys of the cosmos. A particular subset of gravitational lenses, known as strong lenses, is […]

  • Studying Storms from Space Station
    12 June 2025, 4:00 pm
    Science in Space June 2025 Scientists use instruments on the International Space Station to study phenomena in Earth’s ionosphere or upper atmosphere including thunderstorms, lightning, and transient luminous events (TLEs). TLEs take many forms, including blue jets, discharges that grow upward into the stratosphere from cloud tops, and colorful bursts of energy above storms called […]

NASA Image of the Day

    Source: NASA

  • Far Out
    12 June 2025, 8:42 pm
    The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster.

  • Portrait of a Bobcat
    11 June 2025, 9:26 pm
    At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.

  • High Above the World
    10 June 2025, 8:24 pm
    Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk – the first spacewalk of the STS-111 mission.

  • Central Brazil Cerrado
    9 June 2025, 7:34 pm
    Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.

  • Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
    6 June 2025, 8:04 pm
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.

  • Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
    5 June 2025, 5:23 pm
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

  • America’s First Spacewalk
    3 June 2025, 9:26 pm
    Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.

  • A Star Like No Other
    2 June 2025, 8:14 pm
    Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.

  • NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary
    30 May 2025, 4:29 pm
    President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  • 45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group
    29 May 2025, 10:08 pm
    Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

  • Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
    28 May 2025, 8:27 pm
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.

  • Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud
    23 May 2025, 9:02 pm
    The waning gibbous moon sets behind a flag at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans just after sunrise on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

  • Preflight Flower
    22 May 2025, 8:41 pm
    A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim launched aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8.

  • Another Milestone for X-59
    21 May 2025, 6:25 pm
    NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.

  • Sunset on Mars
    20 May 2025, 8:26 pm
    On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This panoramic camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.

Astronomy.com

Sky & Telescope

ScienceDaily

    Source: ScienceDaily - Astronomy News

  • NASA’s Webb telescope reveals monster star clumps in galactic wreckage
    12 June 2025, 2:13 pm
    Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way. The findings provide a rare glimpse into processes shaping galaxies in the very early universe and possibly the Milky Way a few billion years from now.

  • Sun’s secret storms exposed: NASA's codex unveils a turbulent corona
    12 June 2025, 6:13 am
    NASA s CODEX experiment aboard the International Space Station is revealing the Sun like never before. Using advanced filters and a specialized coronagraph, CODEX has captured images showing that the solar wind streams of charged particles from the Sun is not a smooth, uniform flow but rather a turbulent, gusty outpouring of hot plasma. These groundbreaking observations will allow scientists to measure the speed and temperature of the solar wind with unprecedented detail, providing critical insights for space weather forecasting and understanding how solar activity impacts Earth and space technology.

  • Astronomers just found a giant planet that shouldn’t exist
    11 June 2025, 2:53 pm
    Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a fifth the mass of our Sun. This challenges long-standing ideas about how big planets form, especially around small stars. Current theories can't fully explain how such a planet could have taken shape. Even more fascinating, this cold planet may have a rare kind of atmosphere rich in methane or even ammonia something we've never seen in an exoplanet before.

  • From the andes to the beginning of time: Telescopes detect 13-billion-year-old signal
    11 June 2025, 11:41 am
    Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars over 13 billion years ago offers a new lens into the Cosmic Dawn. Overcoming extreme technical challenges, the CLASS team matched their data with satellite readings to isolate this ancient signal. These insights could reshape our understanding of the universe s early evolution, and what it reveals about mysterious components like dark matter and neutrinos.

  • Sand clouds and moon nurseries: Webb’s dazzling exoplanet reveal
    10 June 2025, 5:24 pm
    Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These observations revealed sand-like silicate clouds in one planet s atmosphere and an unexpected disk around another that may be forming moons something previously seen only in much younger systems. These snapshots offer a rare chance to witness planet formation in real time, giving clues about how worlds like Jupiter and even our own solar system came to be.

  • Sun unleashes monster solar storm: Rare G4 alert issued for Earth
    10 June 2025, 1:42 pm
    A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory instruments, this cosmic blast has the potential to disrupt satellites, communications, and military systems.

  • Scientists may have spotted a giant new planet forming
    10 June 2025, 6:40 am
    A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using the powerful Very Large Telescope in Chile, they captured dazzling near-infrared images of a spiral-armed disk, matching theoretical predictions of how young planets shape their environment. With structures extending beyond the scale of our solar system and evidence of planet-driven disturbances, the system could provide vital clues to how planetary systems, including our own, emerge.

  • Planets may start forming before their stars are even done
    9 June 2025, 6:16 pm
    Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, could solve a long-standing mystery: why so many exoplanet systems have tight clusters of similarly sized planets orbiting close to their stars. These compact systems seem to emerge naturally if planets start forming amid the swirling chaos of gas and dust still feeding the star.

  • Largest-ever map of the universe reveals 10x more early galaxies than expected
    7 June 2025, 8:11 am
    An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back to almost the beginning of time. The COSMOS-Web project not only challenges long-held beliefs about galaxy formation in the early universe but also unexpectedly revealed 10 times more galaxies than anticipated along with supermassive black holes Hubble couldn t see.

  • Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' -- studies predict
    4 June 2025, 3:34 am
    Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

  • Black holes could act as natural supercolliders -- and help uncover dark matter
    3 June 2025, 5:46 pm
    Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would otherwise take decades and billions to pursue.

  • Particles energized by magnetic reconnection in the nascent solar wind
    3 June 2025, 5:46 pm
    Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful phenomena as the spacecraft dipped in and out of the solar corona.

  • Webb reveals the origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b
    2 June 2025, 9:53 pm
    Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected atmospheric dynamics: Despite extreme heat, methane was detected on the nightside -- a finding that can be explained by strong vertical atmospheric circulation. First detection of silicon monoxide in a planetary atmosphere: Measurements of this refractory gas allow quantifying the rocky material the planet had accumulated.

  • Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes
    30 May 2025, 6:38 pm
    A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black holes.

  • Cosmic mystery deepens as astronomers find object flashing in both radio waves and X-rays
    28 May 2025, 7:16 pm
    A team of international astronomers have discovered a new cosmic object emitting both radio waves and x-rays.