The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted six rogue planets drifting freely through space, untethered from the gravity of any companion stars. The planets are wandering through the Perseus molecular cloud 960 light-years away and range in size from five to 10 times the mass of Jupiter. The strange cosmic vagabonds are evidence that…

An apparent record-breaking ancient astronomy “observatory,” complete with a sundial, was uncovered recently during a temple dig in the old capital of lower Egypt. The mud-brick temple building was found in a larger complex known now as the Temple of Buto, but which was named after Wadjet during the sixth century BCE, from which it…

A mysterious ring of radio light could have been created by a type of massive star with a powerful wind of radiation blowing away its outer layers, according to astronomers who made the discovery with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. In 2019, astronomers conducting a survey with the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder…

The Starliner approaches the International Space Station during a 2022 test flight. The orbiting lab was flying 268 miles above the south Pacific at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASA When NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off from Earth June 5 aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed flight test…

The Dragon capsule sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A. Credit: Polaris Program/John Kraus (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A billionaire entrepreneur and aviator, a Thunderbird pilot, a former NASA biomedical flight controller, and an experienced astronaut training program lead are preparing to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s…

A radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia J. Seymour/Green Bank Observatory Radio telescopes observing the cosmos face growing challenges because of electromagnetic interference from thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit. Now, experiments involving SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have shown how to virtually eliminate one form of this problem. As these kind…

When photographer Josh Dury set out to photograph the peak of the Perseid meteor shower overnight on Aug. 12 and Aug. 13, little did he know he’d be treated to a truly special cosmic display. The breathtaking image Dury captured shows not only Perseid meteors raining down through the sky but also northern lights and…

The Martian Robotic Rover workshop in progress. Gulf Today, Staff Reporter The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST), affiliated with the University of Sharjah (UoS), conducted a three-day workshop titled “Martian Robotic Rover 2.1,” delivered by the Planetarium and Outreach Department team. The workshop is part of SAASST’s commitment to enhancing the…

In Southampton, England, an astronomy student named Tom Bickle made a remarkable discovery while pursuing his passion for stargazing. In his spare time, Bickle enjoys blasting heavy metal music while meticulously analyzing time-lapses of the night sky, searching for elusive objects at the edge of our solar system. During one of these sessions, Bickle noticed…

The so-called hypervelocity object, which is either a low-mass star or a brown dwarf, is traveling through the Milky Way at around a million miles an hour. In his spare time, Tom Bickle, an astronomy student in Southampton, England, likes to blast heavy metal while combing through time-lapses of the night sky, hunting for traces…