Although not as reviled as the sound of nails on chalkboard, the sound of adhesive tape being peeled is quite probably at least as distinctive. With every millimeter of the tape’s removal from the roll sounding like it’s screaming in protest, it has led some to wonder just why this process is noisy enough to
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids, supernovas, and feasting black holes. And that number is only expected to
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There was once a small, wormlike creature that drifted in ancient seas, filter feeding on plankton. It lived a quiet life, anchored in place, with little need to chase prey or flee from predators. Over millions of years, it lost its eyes. But not all of them. The animal kept a single light sensitive spot
Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept a close watch on the mysterious traveler. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter mission caught a glimpse of the comet shortly after it whizzed past the Sun. JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, or JUICE for short, captured images
The death of a star never looked so beautiful. New images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal what looks eerily like a brain floating in space and housed inside a semitransparent skull. This is the “Exposed Cranium” Nebula, also known as Nebula PMR 1. Located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela,
Over 4 billion years ago, an asteroid called Bennu was drifting through the solar system. Three years ago, NASA brought 121.6 grams of that space rock back to Earth. Scientists wanted to see if the sample contained clues about how life began. What they found instead was so much stranger: the sample contained molecules that
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges up to six feet in height for the last six months. Scientists theorize that the “boxwork” formations were left behind by lakes and
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The last “blood moon” total lunar eclipse, pictured in Shanghai on September 8, 2025. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images On March 2-3, 2026, the full worm moon will cruise through Earth’s shadow and become a “blood moon” for 58 minutes during the final total lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth