Comet 3I/Atlas will make its closest approach to Earth in December. The Geminid meteor shower peaks this month. Also, see a conjunction of Jupiter and the moon. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly to space.



While the U.S. and Soviet Union were busy launching primates, dogs and humans, the French...

On Oct. 12, 1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved several "firsts" for human spaceflight.



The This was the first time that a spacecraft carried more than one person into orbit, with...

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham.



This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the...

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born!



The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to study the southern sky. Before...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race.



Sputnik 1 was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, and it set off a wave of fear and anxiety across the U.S. now known...

Nuns murdered by Soviets in 1945 unearthed in Poland.<br/>
Archaeologists in Poland recently discovered what are likely the remains of nuns executed by Russians during the Soviet occupation.

From photos of the infant universe to an energy advancement that could save the planet.

Take a 3D tour of James Webb Space Telescope's view of the 'Cosmic Cliffs' of the Gum 31 nebula (part of the Carina Nebula Complex). Credit: Producer: Greg Bacon & Frank Summers (STScI), NASA’s Universe of Learning, NASA's Goddard Space...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is 6000 light years away from Earth. Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Music: Mylonite - BO Réflexion Méditation

Mysterious women with egg-shaped skulls found in medieval, Bavarian graves weren't locals, but rather immigrant brides.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station, completing his 4th mission to the orbital outpost. See some of the science he conducted and photography he captured. Credit: NASA

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study. Credit: University of Cambridge

Euclid spots 26 million galaxies and more in latest observations. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi, M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. <b<br/>r/>

Credit: Durham University

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for possible Earth-like planets to image....

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; Space.com | ESO/L. Calçada, M....

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for biosignature studies," according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.



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The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.

The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.

Travel back to the Golden Age of Islam, a time when science, math, medicine, and art were thriving. This video introduces the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from many cultures came together to learn, translate, and make new...

In this video, children are taken on an adventure through different historical periods, including the Baroque period. They learn about fashion, art, music, and important figures like Isaac Newton. The video emphasizes the importance of...

The success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission raises even more questions about our already mysterious Moon.

The end of an era, NASA's SOFIA is finally ending this month.