Tag: astronomy
535 new fast radio bursts help answer deep questions about the...
Emmanuel Fonseca, West Virginia University
On June 9, 2021, my colleagues and I announced the discovery of 535 fast...
Supermoon! Red blood lunar eclipse! It’s all happening at once, but...
Shannon Schmoll, Michigan State University
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours...
This supermoon has a twist – expect flooding, but a lunar...
Brian McNoldy, University of Miami
A “super full moon” is coming on April 27, 2021, and coastal cities like...
Could a human enter a black hole to study it?
Leo Rodriguez, Grinnell College and Shanshan Rodriguez, Grinnell College
Curious Kids is a series for...
What you need to know about this year’s winter solstice and...
William Teets, Vanderbilt University
Editor’s note: Dr. William Teets is the director of Vanderbilt University’s Dyer Observatory. In this interview, he explains what does and...
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes...
Gaurav Khanna, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and...
The detection of phosphine in Venus’ clouds is a big deal...
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
On Sept. 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable worlds in the...
What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains
Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
