Solar eclipse 2024: What to know, how to prepare AccuWeather astronomy expert Brian Lada goes over the key things to know about the upcoming total solar eclipse that will darken the skies over the United States from Texas to Maine on April 8. When the ophthalmologist looked into a 26-year-old’s eye in 2017, it was …
The slow rotation of the orbits of Earth and Mars, recurs every 2.4 million years. (Representational) Our existence is governed by natural cycles, from the daily rhythms of sleeping and eating, to longer patterns such as the turn of the seasons and the quadrennial round of leap years. After looking at seabed sediment stretching back …
News Technology Science Webb spots high concentration of massive, hot stars nearby Peeking into stellar nurseries: Webb Telescope unveils secrets of massive young stars. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows NGC 604, a star-forming region in the nearby Triangulum Galaxy. The red tendrils and bubbles are sculpted by stellar winds from massive …
The latest revelations from the James Webb Space Telescope have sent shockwaves through the scientific community, challenging long-held theories and sparking a cosmic renaissance in our understanding of the universe. Could it be possible that our universe was born out of the enigmatic depths of black holes? Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose’s groundbreaking theories …
Astronomy is a passive science. Its practitioners usually earn their livings studying what they are given: light and other forms of radiation emitted by stars and nebulae, sometimes after it has bounced off other objects, such as planets. But there is an exception. A small but dedicated band of astronomers is not content with the …
Micromoon 2024: The smallest full Moon of 2024 rose in the night sky on February 24, 2024, at 7:30 am EST (6 pm IST). The Moon, known as a micromoon, will appear full through Sunday evening. Since the micromoon of 2024 is a full Moon, it will be at its highest point in the sky …
Odysseus, the Moon lander which landed on the lunar south pole on February 23, 2024, marking the United States’ return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years, tipped over on landing. While the lander, built by Texas-based aerospace firm Intuitive Machines, is resting on its side, it is still operational, according to …
Animation of the Radcliffe Wave. (Image Credit: Ralf Konietzka, Alyssa Goodman, and WorldWide Telescope). Subscribe to Notifications Subscribe to Notifications In 2020, astronomers discovered a mysterious wave of gas and dust in the Milky Way, that was the site of star formation. The astronomers who discovered the wave worked at …
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off more than NASA anticipated. It received double the sample it needed to consider its mission on asteroid Bennu a success NASA spacecraft delivers asteroid samples to Earth A NASA spacecraft containing samples from a nearby asteroid returned to Earth after a seven-year mission. Damien Henderson, Associated Press The first asteroid samples …
Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based aerospace firm, has released the first images of the Earth captured by the company’s Odysseus Moon lander. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Odysseus, also known as NOVA-C, as part of the Intuitive Machines 1 Mission (IM-1), on February 15, 2024. The images were released on February 16, and were captured after …