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Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, whose subsurface ocean may harbor alien life. (Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)
June 14, 2026, 4:56 pm
Contact? Groundbreaking Israeli method may soon detect life in outer space
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say their statistical toolbox will be used aboard planned Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft, Eureka, set to reach Jupiter’s smallest moon in the 2030s
By Diana Bletter
Paz Beniamini receives his Blavatnik Young Scientists Award, June 2, 2026. (Eran Be'eri)
June 6, 2026, 10:05 am
Bucking boycotts, prizewinning Israeli astrophysicist finds ‘Zen-like’ perspective in space
Open University’s first Blavatnik Award laureate, Paz Beniamini, studies cosmic bursts and neutron stars; says science must ‘be done on international level’ regardless of politics
By Diana Bletter
This image provided by NAOJ shows artist’s impression of the trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93 occulting a background star. (Ko Arimatsu/NAOJ via AP)
May 4, 2026, 8:11 pm
Atmosphere spotted on celestial body in far reaches of solar system
Icy body, classified as trans-Neptunian object, is 500 km across, has atmosphere over 5 million times thinner than Earth’s; astronomers mull better name than current (612533) 2002 XV93
By Will Dunham
The Barnard 68 nebula, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, approximately 400 light-years from Earth. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Dr. Shmuel Bialy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and his team measured the signals emitted from this nebula as a result of molecular hydrogen excitation by cosmic rays for the first time. (Courtesy/ European Southern Observatory)
February 6, 2026, 7:57 am
A star is born: Israeli team detects stellar-creation particles 400 light-years away
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers measure cosmic rays in far-off Barnard 68 nebula; study opens ‘new field of astrophysics research’
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Avi Loeb appears on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 28, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)
November 9, 2025, 3:34 am
Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet’s potential alien threat
Israel-born Harvard scientist, no stranger to controversy, has asked Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the celeb got some answers about 3I/ATLAS from a recalcitrant NASA head
By Rich Tenorio
Weizmann Institute of Israel scientists, from left to right: Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam, Dr. Ofer Yaron, and Dr. Steve Schulze of Northwestern University. (Courtesy)
August 20, 2025, 11:22 pm
Team led by Israeli and American scientists discovers silicon and sulfur at supernova core
Weizmann Institute of Science and Northwestern University researchers say analysis of inner depths of star SN2021yfj confirms the theory that stars have heavier elements
By Diana Bletter
From left to right: Sara Faris, Yael Dgany, and Prof. Iair Arcavi of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
July 21, 2025, 6:01 pm
In world breakthrough, scientists see star survive encounter with a black hole
Star AT 2022dbl wandered close to black hole but was only partially destroyed; Tel Aviv University researchers say discovery ‘changes our conceptions of black holes’
By Diana Bletter
A handout artist's impression released on April 17, 2025 by N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge, shows the K2-18b super-Earth, a hycean world, such as exoplanet K2-18b which astronomers say they have found the strongest yet 'hints' of the life outside this solar system. (Handout / University of Cambridge / AFP)
April 17, 2025, 4:20 pm
Astronomers say they’ve found strongest ever ‘hints’ of life beyond our solar system
British-US team detects ‘biosignatures’ on planet K2-18b, 124 lightyears from Earth, says it is ‘closest we have come to seeing a feature that we can attribute to life’
By Daniel Lawler
This photograph shows a partial solar eclipse seen from Nantes on March 29, 2025 (Loic VENANCE / AFP)
March 29, 2025, 7:57 pm
Skygazers across broad swath of Northern Hemisphere see partial solar eclipse
People in much of Europe and North America — though not Israel — get to watch a bite taken out of the sun as the moon crosses its path
By Bénédicte Rey
Anat Hetz-Golan, left, manager of Solaris, and Dr. Marina Hetz, CEO of Space Valley, which built and operates the first and only national solar observatory, in the Druze village of Isfiya on Mount Carmel on February 24, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel
March 20, 2025, 7:33 am
In time for the equinox, Israel’s first solar observatory opens in northern Druze town
Solaris launches in Isfiya as part of a government program to increase space research in the Arab Israeli community
By Diana Bletter
File - this undated handout image provided on January 26, 2022 by astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, with a star icon (at R-placed by source) marking the position of a mysterious repeating transient in space. (Natasha Hurley-Walker/AFP)
April 15, 2024, 12:31 pm
Study uses Egyptian mythology as blueprint for ancient heavens
Astrophysicist Or Gruar uses observatory simulators to map the galaxy onto sky-goddess Nut’s body in potential Egyptology breakthrough
By ToI Staff
An amateur astronomer prepares her telescope a day before a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
April 8, 2024, 8:51 am
Huge crowds await total solar eclipse in North America, but clouds may spoil view
The best weather is expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine; It will be another 21 years before the US sees another total solar eclipse on this scale
By Marcia Dunn
A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. (NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) - HubbleSite: gallery, release. Public domain)
March 27, 2024, 11:10 pm
Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova
Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole
By Ari Rabinovitz
A supernova leaves behind a compact object in a binary system. (Courtesy: Weizmann/ESO)
January 10, 2024, 7:09 pm
Weizmann team says it can finally prove supernovae give birth to black holes
Researchers say dance between dead star and surviving companion in aftermath of explosive end, 75 million lightyears away, provides first direct evidence of elusive link
By ToI Staff
The comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura and its tail as seen from Manciano, Italy on September 5, 2023. (Gianluca Masi via AP)
September 11, 2023, 4:26 am
Newly discovered comet set to pass by Earth, sun before departing for 400 years
Nishimura comet, named after amateur astronomer who discovered it in August, will be visible this week before dawn across Northern Hemisphere, including in Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
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