If you live in a certain part of the United States, tornadoes are an annual threat carving a trail of destruction across tornado alley. In 1996, Twister introduced the world to stormchasing, the exciting and slightly unhinged practice of chasing down tornadoes to learn more about them. Nearly 30 years later, we collectively went stormchasing…

April 2025 might not be the busiest month for celestial events, but there’s always something to discover if you know where to look. Arm yourself with the Sky Tonight app and uncover the wonders of the night sky this month. Let’s get started! Contents Astronomical events in April 2025 The event dates given further are…

Two University of Toledo astronomers will lead research on the fourth and latest cycle of scheduled observation time on the James Webb Space Telescope. Dr. Rupali Chandar and Grant Donnelly advance an impressive record of engagement with the telescope at UToledo, where astronomers have led at least one research project on each cycle of scheduled…

From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs, the Gaia space telescope has seen it all. On Thursday, mission specialists at the European Space Agency sent Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun, and switched it off after more than a decade of service to the world’s astronomers. They…

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft. The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features. But our planet doesn’t have a monopoly on auroras. Scientists have spied them…

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Astronomers have detected signals from a momentous event in the early universe in which a dense fog that cloaked the first stars began to lift, marking the end of the cosmic dark ages. Until now, the exact timing and nature of this critical transition has remained shrouded in mystery. The latest images, from the James…

Emissions from the upper-atmospheric trihydrogen cation (H3+) have been used to study the global-scale interactions of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus with their surrounding space environments for over 30 years, revealing the processes shaping the aurorae. However, despite repeated attempts, and contrary to models that predict it should be present, this ion has proven elusive at…

SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 37The Astronomy, Space and Science News PodcastExciting New Exoplanet Discovery, Evolving Dark Energy, and Insights into the Moon’s Magnetic FieldIn this episode of SpaceTime, we uncover the discovery of a potential new exoplanet, TOI 2818C, located over a thousand light years away in the constellation Papus. This intriguing planetary candidate is…

EDITORIAL article Front. Astron. Space Sci. Sec. Space Physics Volume 12 – 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspas.2025.1599964 This article is part of the Research Topic Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: A Decade of Discovery and Advancement – 10th Anniversary Conference View all 9 articles Provisionally accepted 1 University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada 2 Center for…