1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (320+ words) Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe. The Moon may be…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (626+ words) Autumn brings longer nights to the northern hemisphere, offering more opportunities to get outside and look up at the night sky. There is plenty to look out for over the coming months, from impressive meteor showers to dazzling star clusters....

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1012+ words) Around the SKA telescope, old star stories survive through practical knowledge, new meanings and changing community traditions. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Long before enormous radio dishes began rising from South Africa’s Karoo, people there were already watching the sky. They used celestial…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago   (774+ words) But what exactly is rocket science? Rocket science is the combination of physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and materials science used to design rockets and spacecraft and send them safely through the atmosphere and into space. And surprisingly, the basic…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (323+ words) Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe. It's the start of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (186+ words) How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (982+ words) Friday, September 11Already high in the north after sunset, the planetary nebula NGC 6543 in Draco is famously called the Cat’s Eye Nebula. It’s best seen with a large telescope, but even a small scope will pick it up and show it…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (473+ words) September's new moon opens a dark window for seeing zodiacal light, the ghostly cone of interplanetary dust that rises above the eastern horizon before dawn. Some stargazing feels like you know exactly what you are looking for, but you're still…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (312+ words) Explanation: Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and blue star clusters lend this galaxy its popular name,…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (540+ words) Autumn equinox, Harvest Moon and five planets light up UAE’s September nights Dubai: We are eleven days into September, and there is still plenty to see in the UAE's night sky. Saturn is already out for most of the night....