A small town in New York is about to become stargazing central for thousands of space fans hoping to check out the latest telescopes and more. And this year may be the event’s biggest yet. The Northeast Astronomy Forum 2025 (NEAF) is billed as the “world’s largest astronomy and space expo,” and runs this weekend…

A rocket containing parts from a German V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Credit: NASA As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 rocket. A long-range, liquid-fueled supersonic…

Alyssa Pagan ’16 Years later, Pagan does more than just admire the stars. She brings distant worlds to life as a science visuals developer with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Baltimore-based organization that operates the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in partnership with NASA. Pagan transforms dark, monochromatic images…

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight. Four private astronauts lifted off from Florida on Monday on the Fram2 mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole.Joe Skipper/Reuters A SpaceX rocket blasted off Monday night…

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space telescope. Gaia has been the most successful ESA space mission ever, so why did they turn Gaia off? What…

“Each galaxy is beautiful,” says Adam Amara, an astrophysicist and the UK Space Agency’s chief scientist. “But we didn’t design [Euclid] to produce pretty pictures. We designed it to do hard science.” Ideally, telescopes have wide fields-of-view (so they can see big patches of the sky), high resolution vision (so fine details pop out of photographs) and…

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…