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Astronomy and the climate crisis: Scientists make some connections Chelsea Gohd, Space | 11 August 2020 Climate change affects astronomy, and vice versa. In a new study, astronomers investigated the relationship between astronomy and climate change. (Image: © NASA) As astronomers look...

Will Universe End with ‘Black Dwarf’ Supernova Explosions? News Staff, Sci News Staff | Aug 20, 2020 A series of ‘black dwarf’ supernovae will be the last astrophysical events to occur in our Universe prior to the so-called heat death, when the Universe will be populated only by black holes and...

Truck-sized asteroid swept within 2,000 miles on Sunday Posted by Deborah Byrd in SPACE | August 19, 2020 Asteroid ZTF0DxQ – now officially labeled 2020 QG – now holds the record for the closest flyby of Earth. It swept just 2,000 miles (3,000 km) from Earth’s surface, or about a quarter of the...

“Exist at an Astonishing Scale” – Planets Orbiting Black Holes Could Harbor Life ‘Beyond Extreme’ The Daily Galaxy | 8 August 2020 “The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe –the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space...

Explosive UFO Report In NYT Mentions ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made On This Earth’ Ed Mazza, Huffington Post | 27 July 2020 A Pentagon consultant made the revelation to The New York Times. A still from GIMBAL, one of three videos released by the Pentagon showing unidentified aerial phenomena...

Solar Orbiter sends back the closest photos of the Sun ever taken Alison Klesman, Astronomy | Published: Thursday, July 16, 2020 Among these stunning shots are images of tiny, widespread hotspots called “campfires.” The joint NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter satellite, which plans to spend the next...

Here’s how to see Jupiter’s 4 largest moons Deborah Byrd and Paul Scott Anderson in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | July 12, 2020 Jupiter is now at its best time of the year for viewing, so turn your binoculars or telescope on the giant planet for a glimpse of its 4 largest Galilean moons. Composite...

A proposed new mission to Venus Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | July 12, 2020 The proposed VERITAS mission to Venus is one of the finalists for NASA’s Discovery Program. If selected, it will revolutionize our knowledge about the planet’s geology and how this formerly habitable world became a...

Navy videos spark renewed interest in UFOs from enthusiasts and Congress Luis Martinez, ABC News | July 2, 2020, 6:39 AM Congress wants to see what the U.S. government knows about UFOs. This year's World UFO Day comes at a time of heightened interest in the decades-long search to solve the...

A monster quasar in the early universe Deborah Byrd in SPACE | June 26, 2020 Astronomers just announced the most massive quasar yet known in the early universe. Its monster central black hole has a mass equivalent to 1.5 billion of our suns. The object has been given a Hawaiian name...

Wowzer! Pluto spacecraft sees parallax for Proxima EarthSky in SPACE | June 15, 2020 New images from the fringes of our solar system. The fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft sees a parallax shift – a different apparent position against the background stars – for Proxima Centauri. The New...

Hubble glimpses a galaxy among many NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | June 12, 2020 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. Looking deep into the universe, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred...

Biggest asteroid to pass close (and undetected) this year Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | June 11, 2020 Asteroid 2020 LD passed within the moon’s distance on June 5, but wasn’t discovered until June 7. It’s the 45th known and the largest asteroid to sweep within a lunar-distance of Earth so far in...

Should Scientists Take UFOs and Ghosts More Seriously? John Horgan, Scientific American | May 18, 2020 Journalist Leslie Kean investigates topics that many consider to be beyond the pale Leslie Kean: “Where is the curiosity among scientists about the mysteries of the unknown? The challenge...

New study says dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck Earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle Eleanor Imster in EARTH | June 3, 2020 “For the dinosaurs, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened … because it put more hazardous debris into the upper atmosphere and scattered it everywhere, the very...

Black holes are like a hologram EarthSky in SPACE | June 5, 2020 The theory of relativity describes black holes as being spherical, smooth and simple. Quantum theory describes them as being extremely complex and full of information. New research now proposes a surprising solution to this...

Did galactic crash trigger solar system formation? EarthSky in SPACE | June 4, 2020 The formation of the sun, the solar system and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy – the Milky Way – and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius. The...

1st quarter moon is May 29-30 Deborah Byrd in MOON PHASES | May 27, 2020 The 1st quarter moon happens on May 30, 2020, at 03:31 UTC. As viewed from anywhere on Earth, a 1st quarter moon is at its highest in the sky at sunset, looking like half a pie. Composite image of a moon nearly at 1st...

ALMA spots the twinkling heart of our Milky Way EarthSky in SPACE | May 26, 2020 Astronomers used the ALMA telescope in Chile to observe irregular flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of our Milky Way galaxy: the twinkling heart of the galaxy.Astronomers using the ALMA telescope in...

Astronomers find the Wolfe Disk, a galaxy that shouldn't exist, in the distant universe Ashley Strickland, CNN | Sat May 23, 2020 Artists impression of the Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early universe. (CNN) Astronomers have spotted a massive disk galaxy, not unlike our...