Technology May Beat Biology When It Comes To Finding Alien Signatures, Scientists Argue
It’s possible that our sense that life is significantly more common in the cosmos than technology is incorrect. Rethinking how resources are prioritized in one…
Astronomy
JWST Is Finally Fully Aligned and In Full, Glorious Focus
The JWST, the world’s largest and most powerful telescope, now has all of its mirrors aligned and in focus. The crew has produced a series…
Fiery Meteor Creates Sonic Boom Heard Across Three US States
On Wednesday, a large fireball shattered the Earth’s atmosphere above Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. At 8:03 a.m. CDT, a meteor sped through the sky, allegedly…
“Groundbreaking” New Milky Way Announcement Coming From First Black Hole Image Team
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have scheduled a press conference for May 12 to discuss “groundbreaking Milky Way results.”…
The First Solar Eclipse Of 2022 Is Due This Weekend. Here’s How to Watch It
It’s that time of year again, isn’t it? The globe is poised to see its first solar eclipse of 2022, which will occur almost precisely…
Doomed Moon Phobos Is Going To Crash into Mars
From the surface of Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover obtained a stunning image of Phobos eclipsing the Sun last week. The eclipse may have appeared more…
Why are Uranus and Neptune different Colors?
Astronomers may have figured out why the planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Researchers built a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both…
Supermassive Black Holes discovered in Dying Galaxies in the Early Universe
An international team of astronomers used a database that combined observations from the world’s best telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from…
Venus’s Thick, Soupy Atmosphere Stops It Tidally Locking to the Sun
Venus is the only planet orbiting the Sun that has a day that is longer than its year – that is, it rotates so slowly…
Glorious Solar Eclipse on Mars Snapped By Perseverance As Phobos Passes the Sun
Perseverance has captured a spectacular solar eclipse on Mars as the strangely curved moon Phobos passes in front of the Sun. The spectacular footage shows…
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