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The Blue Moon Is Fake. You Are Being Deceived
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (294+ words) Published May 29, 2026 2: 02 PM EDT At the end of this month, the sky will be graced by a rare Blue Moon. But wait: it's actually a slightly smaller than usual full Moon that's also a Blue Moon " so instead, newspapers and…...
Scientist Suggests That 3 I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (363+ words) Published May 26, 2026 4: 08 PM EDT A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of space via cosmic dust, asteroids, or comets " a theory known as panspermia. Some, including…...
Sun Suddenly Blasts Powerful Radio Transmission for 19 Continuous Days
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (325+ words) Published May 24, 2026 6: 45 AM EDT The Sun has broken a new record for continuous radio wave transmissions, blasting a powerful signal four times longer than any other similar phenomenon ever recorded. Data from the cosmic outburst, published in The Astrophysical Journal…...
James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy
1+ week, 6+ day ago (316+ words) Published May 17, 2026 2: 15 PM EDT A stunning new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows a nearby galaxy bursting with light at its center, revealing the distinct but optically invisible structure that underpins the sprawling realm. The new image,…...
Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (258+ words) Published May 16, 2026 12: 45 PM EDT Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it's permanently shrouded in a thick and nigh-impenetrable layer of clouds. Now, astronomers have an answer about what they glimpsed. In a new study…...
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and" Yikes
2+ week, 1+ day ago (316+ words) Published May 15, 2026 10: 03 AM EDT You'd hope that the world's brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our reality " but one of the largest physics surveys in history instead found that pretty much no one agrees…...
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
2+ week, 6+ day ago (431+ words) Published May 10, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley's Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye every 72 to 80 years. That makes it a short-period comet, whose highly elliptical orbit takes it beyond Neptune before…...
Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says
2+ week, 6+ day ago (212+ words) Published May 10, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT You may think you're the protagonist of your own story. According to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, however, you're more like a puppet " whose strings are being pulled into a million parallel universes at any given time....
NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free
3+ week, 16+ hour ago (416+ words) Published May 9, 2026 8: 15 AM EDT NASA's Curiosity rover got stuck in a rock, and consequently found itself in a hard place. Last month, the Mars robot was drilling into a rock sample using its robotic arm, as is routine in its…...
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
3+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) Published May 8, 2026 9: 49 AM EDT There's a fresh twist in the mystery of the "little red dots. Astronomers say they've found a new specimen, which they're calling an "X-ray dot, that suggests these crimson specks are a type of never-before-seen " and…...