Astronomy
The Perseid meteor shower is back: All the best places to watch shooting stars in Israel
One of the most impressive celestial shows of the year reaches its peak on August 12. But here’s a tip: Shooting stars can also be seen in the days before and after the peak.
Researchers decode 200-year-old Red Sea navigational chart, revealing lost seafaring secrets
Selling light after dark: Satellite designed to reflect sunlight to Earth approved by FCC
Ancient structure near Stonehenge may have inspired its solstice alignment, archaeologists say
Christmas Eve: Spot Mercury, Venus and the Moon without binoculars
Stargazers can look forward to seeing Mercury and Venus, as well as the moon that orbits around our planet, without binoculars or a telescope.
'Hot Jupiter' alien planet spiraling to its doom around aging star - study
The discovery will serve as a "celestial laboratory for years to come" and will help astronomers better understand tidal dynamics.
Israeli scientist helps discover the universe's first stars - Cambridge study
Astrophysicists managed for the first time to statistically characterize the first galaxies in the universe.
New space observatory helps solve mystery involving enormous black holes
Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) orbiting observatory, researchers were able to answer more unexplained questions.
World's first disabled astronaut named by European Space Agency
The announcement came as ESA appointed a new set of astronauts for the first time since 2009 after whittling down 22,500 valid applications.
Most energetic gamma-ray burst confirms Israeli researchers' predictions
Gamma-ray bursts are a phenomenon in which a massive amount of X-rays and gamma rays are emitted within seconds in a single pulse or in multiple subsequent pulses.
South Africa's new ground station to help NASA track space flights
Close to key communication and transport infrastructure, the remote site was chosen due to its geographic location with clear skies and low radio interference.
Behavior of star clusters challenge Newton's laws of gravity
Data from open star clusters seems to fit better with an alternate theory of gravity.
Scholars find a piece of first ever star map in medieval scroll in Egypt
The piece of the Star Catalog is believed to have been written by Hipparchus with surprising accuracy.
Webb reveals a galaxy sparkling with the universe’s oldest star clusters
The Milky Way, our galaxy, has about 150 globular clusters. Their history is not yet well understood by astronomers, and measuring their age can be extremely difficult.
