Want to add some color to your observing session? M41 is a star cluster featuring suns of several colors, a great target for any skill level.
Study warns Antarctica ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is fracturing faster
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DESI — and the search to understand dark energy — get a day in the sun
After five years of mapping the sky in 3D — an area that stretches from Earth’s front porch to about 11 billion light-years away — researchers at the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project are…
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Dark energy could lead to a ‘Big Crunch’ end for our universe: Study
For nearly three decades, the scientific world has operated under an assumption: the universe is flying apart faster and faster, doomed to a lonely, cold end.
But a new study suggests we might have misread the cosmic speedometer…
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Nuñez receives Vallee Scholar Award
James Nuñez, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named a 2025 Vallee Scholar by the Vallee Foundation. Established in 2013, the Vallee Scholar Awards program provides…
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Astronomers observe a flaring supermassive black hole firing winds at 60,000 km/s!
An international team of astronomers have recently observed a dramatic event unfolding in the heart of NGC 3783, a spiral galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth. At its centre lies a supermassive black hole around 30 million…
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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959
Milestone: Vision of nanotechnology laid out
Date: Dec. 29, 1959
Where: Pasadena, California
Who: Richard Feynman
On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics.
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The Origami Wheel That Could Explore Lunar Caves
Beneath the Moon’s cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar bases from cosmic radiation and wild temperature swings. These underground structures represent some of the…
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Hubble Reveals Chaos in the Largest Planet Nursery Ever Seen
A thousand light years from Earth, something enormous is happening. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed, a swirling mass of gas and dust that spans nearly 640 billion km. To put…