Volunteers discover rare space weather events using their ears

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma—but it's not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the sun ...
Space.com

This giant telescope could discover habitable exoplanets and secrets of our universe — if it gets its funding

"I believe the most remarkable discoveries that the GMT will make will be the ones that we haven't even imagined yet. There's ...

The universe's most powerful telescope

SN 2025mkn is a Type II supernova and it wasn't supposed to be visible at all. The violent death of a massive star that had ...
University News & Events

DESI completes largest high-resolution 3D map of universe to date

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...
Arizona Daily Star

How a Kitt Peak telescope helped in latest dark energy breakthrough

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...
AOL

Astronomers capture first images of aurora on Uranus using powerful telescope

Scientists have been able to peer into Uranus’ upper atmosphere for the first time thanks to the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - and have documented the icy giant’s own version of the ...
IFLScience

We Could Turn The Sun Into A Giant Telescope Within 30 Years, NASA Scientist Suggests

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Fox News

Researchers pinpoint source of black hole's 3,000-light-year-long jet stream using enhanced telescope network

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...
IFLScience

Over 1,300 "Anomalies" Found In 30 Years Of Hubble Telescope Data By Astronomers Using AI

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
autoevolution

NASA Sneaks Small Telescope into Orbit to Spy on Distant Worlds Using a New Approach

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...
New York Post

NASA finds starless, dark-matter astronomical object using Hubble Space Telescope — first confirmed detection of its kind in universe

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...