There’s a rare partial ‘blood moon’ eclipse early Friday morning
A PARTIAL LUNAR eclipse is happening from around 4am to just after 6am Friday morning. This event is known…
Tiny Stars Are Making the Early Universe Much Harder to Explain
An international team of researchers, including Penn State physicists, leveraged NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study nine…
Betelgeuse’s surface reveals a shape that surprises astronomers
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing the Sun and Earth. Located in the constellation of Orion,…
Lunar eclipse 2026 guide: Everything to know about the must-see sky show
Stargazers in North America will be treated to a total lunar eclipse, when Earth’s shadow will temporarily cover…
NASA Researchers Want to Literally Blot Out Starlight to Hunt for Earth-Like Exoplanets
If you’ve ever blocked out the Sun with your hand to get a better look at anything, then…
Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the Sun
Image: © Berk Ucak | iStock A study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals…
Extended components of little red dots in the rest-frame optical
Furtak, L. J. et al. JWST UNCOVER: extremely red and compact object at zphot = 7.6 triply imaged…
‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…
Cosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwise
A major limit on dark photon dark matter may be far weaker because early-universe plasma stops absorbing energy…
This Suitcase-Sized Spacecraft Could Detect a Signal From Before Stars Existed
Artist’s impression of the CosmoCube satellite. Credit: Surrey Space Technology Ltd A suitcase-sized satellite could use the Moon’s…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Quote of the day by Jennifer Wiseman: “Our bodies actually depend on…” |
Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…