Stargazers to get rare treat in days with ‘Demon Star’ meteor shower and 4 other sky events
September will also be the month with equal hours of light and dark with the equilux – here’s…
“We’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like This”: A Strange Ten-Sided “Structure” Has Been Spotted on Saturn’s North Pole
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed a strange ten-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn’s south pole, the first regular-sided…
‘Inploration’ Highlights Dozens of Artists Who Explore Space to Understand Earth — Colossal
In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t…
What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn
A team of astronomers discovered a strange polygonal atmospheric structure on Saturn near the planet’s south pole. This…
Astronomers use MeerKAT to directly detect faint hydrogen signal from the distant Universe
The researchers say the work opens up new opportunities to measure neutral hydrogen over cosmological distances and study…
The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes
Astronomers estimate that about 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes exist within the observable universe, a number written as…
Solar flare event could trigger vibrant aurora display later this week
Three strong solar flares erupted from the sun in less than 24 hours. During this series of eruptions,…
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…