How to Watch an Asteroid Fly Uncomfortably Close to Earth on Wednesday
An asteroid the size of a commercial airplane will skim past our planet on Wednesday, September 3. Asteroid…
Is the universe infinite? Scientists reveal how vast it really is..
One of the strongest indicators of this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint afterglow from the…
NASA once celebrated her, then fired her, and then tried to erase her story: The rise and fall of Rose Ferreira |
Image: Brooke Owens Fellowship Rose Ferreira’s life story reads like a tale of resilience against impossible odds. Born…
The Night Sky This Week
The ‘Blood Worm Moon’ total lunar eclipse is seen above Austin, TX on March 14, 2025. (Photo by…
Voyager 2’s journey into interstellar space raises more questions than answers!
Voyager 2 continues to travel at over 55,000 kilometres per hour, moving deeper into interstellar space. Its power…
This Weirdly Brilliant Telescope Design Might Finally Uncover Earth’s Twin
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional…
When is sunset? Daylight will rapidly disappear in September.
The surprising science behind shorter summer days Scientific research reveals that Earth has been spinning at a quicker…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
Lunar eclipse coming up on September 7 — here are the best times and places to see it
It’s September 7. You’re looking at an unobstructed eastern horizon at 8.04pm from your location somewhere in the…
How small is Earth? Exploring the vast scale of galaxies, clusters and beyond
From the ground beneath our feet to the farthest reaches of intergalactic space, the universe stretches far beyond…
How To Get An Epic View Of The Milky Way This Weekend
The summer Milky Way overhead and through the Summer Triangle stars in July, looking up through trees in…
Webb Telescope Spots Sparkling Crystals and Life’s Ingredients in the Butterfly Nebula
This image, which combines infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope with submillimetre observations from the Atacama…