On Sunday, June 21st, a small part of the Earth witnessed a spectacular ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse. 

For the first time, astronomers have observed a neutron star collecting material before blasting out an immensely bright X-ray burst—a burst thousands of times brighter than the Sun. 

On Jun 10th, NASA officially confirmed that the James Webb Space Telescope would not be able to make its March 2021 launch deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

After five months of waiting, June 5th marked the return of lunar eclipse season for 2020—and there are still a few more to catch before the end of the year.  

Near-Earth Asteroids are a favourite of popular astronomy often due to their association to cataclysmic events and consequent mass extinctions, with smaller recent reminders (Tunguska, Chelyabinsk or the recent explosion

Chandra X-Ray Observatory has recorded a stellar-mass black hole blasting out jets of material at nearly 80% the speed of light.  

A team of astronomers just discovered an incredibly rare 11-billion-year-old doughnut-shaped galaxy, nicknamed a ‘cosmic ring of fire.’ 

SpaceX made history on Saturday, May 30th, after successfully delivering two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.  

Though Wednesday’s launch was scrubbed due to bad weather, SpaceX plans on being the first private company in history to send astronauts into space. 

Astronomers just detected a new type of asteroid orbiting ahead of Jupiter—an asteroid with a comet’s tail. 

Astronomers have just detected unique pulsation patterns coming from young and chaotic stars—stars that were previously believed to only give off jumbled pulses.  

Astronomers may have finally discovered where some high-energy neutrinos come from—supermassive black holes.