A rare astronomical event will occur on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, as a new moon reaches its farthest distance from Earth until 2043. Occurring four hours before the moon reaches its new phase at 1:47 a.m. EST, according to Timeanddate.com,…
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — A research team has found a way to make certain rare earth materials, known for their bright and stable light, emit light when powered directly by electricity.
The study, co-conducted by researchers from…
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Tonight the moon’s completely out of sight, that’s because it’s a New Moon. This means the side facing us is in shadow, so there’s to see at all. After tonight, we’ll be in a new…
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the…
The Isala citizen-science project (https://isala.be/en/) was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Antwerp University Hospital/University of Antwerp (B300201942076) on November 18th, 2019, and registered…
For nearly two centuries, the world accepted a simple explanation for why ice makes us slip. According to physics textbooks, pressure from a skate, a boot or a tyre melts a microscopic film of water on the surface. That meltwater acts like a…
After teasing a major announcement, NASA has released a slate of new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the closest observations obtained to date.
Across the Solar System, from observatories studying the Sun to spacecraft on the…
Gamma-ray bursts, the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe, continue to challenge our understanding of extreme astrophysical phenomena, and recent observations of GRB 221009A have revealed unexpectedly bright, very-high-energy…