Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important because it’s the brightest star in the heavens, and ...
You can’t see or feel it, but the Milky Way where our solar system lives is rippling, scientists say, like a pond that’s been disrupted by a stone. Except in this case, as Live Science explains, that ...
Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb has disclosed that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited a strange wobble in its anti-tail prior to perihelion, acting almost as a cosmic lighthouse. The ...
Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star’s violent destruction, confirms a prediction made ...
OXFORD, England, July 22 (UPI) --Astronomers have been monitoring the oscillating brightness of Neptune's atmosphere for the last 40 years. Using the data, a new study in the journal Nature ...
Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper, twisting the fabric of spacetime itself as it devoured a star. In a rare cosmic accident, a ...
Discover the mystery of 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet with wobbling 'anti-tail' jets. Harvard's Avi Loeb warns of its ...