Astronomy
May 5th’s ‘Teaser’ Lunar Eclipse
A ‘barely there’ lunar eclipse will flirt with the shadow of the Earth Friday evening.
Even if There's Life on TRAPPIST-1, We Probably Can't Detect it
If we ever find life on other worlds, it is unlikely to be a powerful message from space. It's certainly…
China Finally Tells us What's Going on With its Mars Rover
The Zhurong Rover has sat unmoving and unresponsive on Mars since May 20th, 2022, when one of the planet’s infamous…
Each Planetary Nebula is Unique. Why Do They Look So Different?
When it comes to cosmic eye candy, planetary nebulae are at the top of the candy bowl. Like fingerprints—or maybe…
The Next Generation of Telescopes Will Tell Us About the Weather on Other Worlds
A study shows how next-generation Extremely Large Telescopes are going to let astronomers get a glimpse of what's going on…
JWST Sees Merging Galaxies Releasing the Light of a Trillion Suns
If we want to know what it'll look like in about 4.5 billion years when our galaxy merges with Andromeda,…
The Milky Way has Trapped the Large Magellanic Cloud With its Gravity. What Comes Next?
Our galaxy’s largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in…
Views of This Week’s Amazing Hybrid Solar Eclipse
Amazing views from Earth and space of this week’s rare hybrid annular total eclipse.
The First Light in the Universe Helps Build a Dark Matter Map
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration used years of cosmic microwave background data to create a new map of Dark…
Juice Looks Back at Earth During Its Space Odyssey to Jupiter’s Moons
As the European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft headed out on an eight-year trip to Jupiter's icy moons, it turned back…