Dwarf Planet Ceres is passing close to a background star this evening, making it easy to find and its motion easy to see.
Ceres follows a gently…
Category: 7. Science
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Stone tool ‘tech’ used by early humans was very slow to advance
A newly analyzed site in northern Kenya is reshaping the story of early human technology. An international team reports more than 1,200 stone tools from three stacked layers that span roughly 300,000 years – from 2.75 to 2.44 million years…
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Astronomers spot signs of a new infant planet forming inside a cosmic “planet-making factory” just 400 light-years away
Astronomers capture detailed infrared images of HD 34282’s planet-forming disk
It may be hard to picture a planet as a newborn in a nursery, but astronomers have just observed one of the factories where these celestial objects are formed. The…
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Bare, hostile alien worlds may be able to host life after all, after astronomers made one key change
One of the most important features of extrasolar planets – planets beyond our Solar System – is whether they have an atmosphere or not.
For astrobiology in particular, small, rocky planets blanketed with an atmosphere offer the best hope in…
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Einstein might have been wrong about black holes
Black holes are often described as cosmic gluttons, consuming everything that drifts too close — including light itself. This is what makes the images of the supermassive black holes at the centers of the galaxy M87 and our own Milky Way so…
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Einstein might have been wrong about black holes
Black holes are often described as cosmic gluttons, consuming everything that drifts too close — including light itself. This is what makes the images of the supermassive black holes at the centers of the galaxy M87 and our own Milky Way so…
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Acacia survival tactics: Fight back or play dead – The EastAfrican
- Acacia survival tactics: Fight back or play dead The EastAfrican
- When water runs out, some trees refuse to stop growing Earth.com
- Africa acacias ‘go for broke’ to grow and use up water to survive drought Phys.org
- Umbrella Acacia Trees in Africa…
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Integrating Microfluidics and Miniaturization in Modern Separation Science
David S. Hage, James Hewett University Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and recipient of the 2025 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Separation Science, recently spoke with LCGC International…
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2025, November 19: Pegasus Globular Cluster: Find Messier 15, the Great Andromeda Galaxy, and the Double Cluster
November 19, 2025: With the moon near its New phase, moonlight no longer hides faint celestial treasures. Step outside to find the Great Andromeda Galaxy, the Double Cluster in Perseus, and the globular star cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus,…
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Struggle between gravity and magnetic fields form massive stars
A new ALMA survey shows that gravity realigns magnetic fields as gas collapses in 17 young star clusters. The team resolved the structure down to a few thousand astronomical units, the average Earth-to-sun distance (about 93 million miles).
They…
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