2+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) A team of researchers found a naked photo-bombing comet in an image from publicly available archival data from the Subaru Telescope. The Subaru Telescope has produced a vast collection of publicly available images covering large areas of the sky. Although…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (171+ words) The giant sunspot of 1947 had the potential to trigger a massive solar flare. image: Sun-like stars produce a superflare about once every hundred years. view more Credit: MPS / Alexey Chizhik A look at distant stars and into the past "According…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (342+ words) Beyond probing the history of the universe, the NASA space telescope will test a new technique for examining exoplanets. image: The NASA space telescope “Nancy Grace Roman” (or Roman for short) is scheduled to launch into space from the Kennedy…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) Astronomers at University of Central Florida are using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to study a distant icy object that may offer a rare look at how centaurs evolve into active comets image: Charles Schambeau, a…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (93+ words) image: Sky coverage of FASHI DR2 (blue) compared with ALFALFA (red). The background shows the DESI (green) and SDSS (gray) galaxy distributions. view more Credit: ©Science China Press Just two years after its first data release (DR1), the FASHI team — led by…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (144+ words) SAN ANTONIO — August 14, 2026 — Using unique equipment installed on NASA’s WB-57 aircraft flying above heavy clouds off the coast of Iceland, a Southwest Research Institute-led team successfully observed a total solar eclipse on Wednesday. The high-altitude jet followed the shadow of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (291+ words) image: An international team of researchers, including Penn State physicists, leveraged NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study nine massive, mature galaxies that ceased forming stars billions of years ago. Based on their spectra, the astronomers determined that these galaxies…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (60+ words) Runaway Black Hole (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The rogue super-massive black hole compresses gas in its wake, forming a long “contrail” of young, blue stars. This unusual event happened when the universe was approximately half its current age. NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (38+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Flowchart of the radiometric vicarious calibration on FY-3/MERSI. More on this News Release A vicarious calibration model enables quantitative applications of Fengyun-3 satellite ocean color data...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (106+ words) In a recent study of Black parents and their teens, Shardé McNeil Smith, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explored how parents’ levels of appropriated racism affected racial-ethnic socialization messages that affirmed…...