Our morning sky presents a good demonstration that the planets do indeed move, and that they all dont move at the same rate, nor always in the same direction. The planetary trio of Venus, Mars, and S… [+3518 chars]
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have relea… [+2184 chars]
On 18 February, ESA’s Gaia observatory snapped NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Gaia arrived in orbits around the Lagrange point 2 (L2) in 2014, whereas Webb arrived in the orbits around the … [+1557 chars]
An announcement regarding the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program will drop on Wednesday, March 30th. NASA has promised that the "exciting new observation" by Hubble will be "one for the record boo… [+765 chars]
Just a few days ago we enjoyed the beautiful view of the so-called Worm Moon in Yucatán, which preceded the spring equinox, and this Monday, March 28th, there will be another beautiful astronomical e… [+998 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
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Species that rely on darkness to forage and feed are losing the gift of camouflage thanks to advances in the lighting used to illuminate the world’s cities and coastlines, a study has shown.The world… [+4777 chars]