3+ week, 2+ day ago   (283+ words) Captured during its cruise phase roughly 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) away, the image offers direct optical proof of how planetary reflection works across deep space. That distance is nearly double the average gap between Earth and the Sun. In addition…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (215+ words) futura-sciences.com The eclipse delivered: how Europe experienced the august 12 event The path of darkness Observers in northern Spain and western Iceland caught the main event: totality, when the Moon fully blocked the Sun and daylight briefly vanished. Viewers across…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (290+ words) Much of France saw the Sun almost entirely masked that Wednesday, the first major eclipse visible from the country since 1999. Local landscape and humidity levels also shaped how dramatic the experience felt from place to place. When sunlight is suddenly…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (321+ words) A press release from Leiden University (corresponding to the Nature Astronomy article, freely available via arXiv) breaks it down: galaxies previously believed to be massive early in the story of the observable Universe—which is a headache for the standard…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) The approach depends on location. Within our solar system, probes sample rock, ice, and water on the ground. Farther out, astronomers have only starlight to go on. NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years scouring Mars for fossil biosignatures, chemical or…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (427+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (321+ words) When circular radio structures first appeared in telescope data in 2019, scientists labeled them Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, and linked them to massive explosions in distant galaxies. However, researchers from Western Sydney University confirm this new object, designated G305.4-2.2, calls for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (379+ words) Visible light shows a galaxy’s familiar framework of stars, dust, and gas clouds. X-rays, however, reveal gas heated to millions of degrees by supermassive black holes, exploding stars, and scorching stellar winds. When researchers combine Chandra’s high-energy X-ray data with…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (169+ words) Lead author Lukas Böhme and cosmologist Dominik Schwarz at Bielefeld University evaluated the solar system’s motion using distant radio galaxies. Rather than measuring direct velocity vectors, they mapped the spatial distribution of these celestial radio sources. As an observer moves…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (437+ words) Roman’s flagship planet-hunting technique, gravitational microlensing, harnesses Einstein’s general theory of relativity. When a foreground star passes precisely in front of a background star, the foreground star’s gravity acts as a natural magnifying glass, bending and amplifying the background light....