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Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
11+ hour, 49+ min ago (652+ words) Andromeda’s collective glow reaches the naked eye, but an Earth-Sun analogue there would combine a ten-billion-to-one contrast with a 1.3-microarcsecond separation....
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
For years, mysterious little red dots kept appearing in James Webb images of the early universe — astronomers now think one is a “black hole star,” a growing black hole hidden inside a star-like gas cocoon the size of the solar system
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (17+ words) A telescope worth ten billion dollars stared into the dawn of time and came back with freckles....
Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water.
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (980+ words) Mars has about 97% as much surface area as Earth’s dry land, a geometrical coincidence created by the oceans covering most of the larger planet....
Betelgeuse's northeast hotspot held its spot from 2015 to 2023, outliving the large convective structures current models predict
1+ week, 26+ min ago (20+ words) The red supergiant's stubborn hotspot defies everything astronomers thought they knew about how massive stars churn their surfaces....
Every 97 days, a Neptune-sized world looms above Kepler-36b, spanning roughly 2.5 times the apparent diameter of our full Moon. At closest approach, its gravity raises enormous tides that could flex the rocky planet beneath it.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (758+ words) Kepler-36b and its Neptune-sized neighbour pass within about 1.9 million kilometres, creating a giant sky view and a powerful, changing tide across the rocky planet....
A Soviet probe survived the journey to Venus and began testing the surface of another world — only for its soil instrument to come down on a discarded piece of the spacecraft itself and send the mistaken reading all the way back to Earth
1+ week, 4+ day ago (425+ words) The Soviet probe that conquered Venus's hellish surface may have been undone by its own debris. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Of all the ways to be humbled by another planet, tripping over your own…...
For most of human history, anyone standing beneath a clear, moonless sky could see the Milky Way. Electric light began erasing that view little more than a century ago—and today, artificial skyglow hides our galaxy from more than one-third of humanity.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1528+ words) The one-third figure comes from a 2016 global model using 2014 satellite data and 35,000 ground checks. Later naked-eye reports suggest the visible night has continued to brighten. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 31, 2026 · How we edit Wait long enough…...
Three supermassive black holes have been found packed into a galaxy that existed just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang — an ancient cosmic pile-up that may explain how the early universe produced such enormous monsters before it had much time to do so
1+ week, 6+ day ago (658+ words) The discovery of three feeding black holes in an infant galaxy offers astronomers a rare glimpse into how the universe assembled its most massive monsters before it had time to build them. Published August 31, 2026 · How we edit Most galaxies get…...
Kepler stared at the same 150,000 stars in Cygnus for four years without looking away, watching for the tiny dimming of a planet crossing in front of them, and the four years of staring turned up more than 2,600 confirmed worlds
1+ week, 6+ day ago (379+ words) By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule....