Astronomy

Using NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, astronomers from Shanghai Normal University in China and elsewhere have investigated a distant blazar known as 4FGL J0309.9-6058. As a result, they identified quasi-periodic oscillation in the gamma-ray band […]

How could the principle of “radical mundanity” proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven’t found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint […]

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn’t yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first light in June 2025, when it captured its Virgo First Look images as part […]

A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was […]

What if I told you that while you can’t see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is crazy. But it’s crazy enough that it just might […]

As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven’t, it’s actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a […]

Using NASA’s Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova named Nova Scorpii 2023. Results of the observational campaign, published October 21 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver […]

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a bright K-type star known as TOI-283. The newfound alien world, which received the designation TOI-283 b, […]

Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the “Halloween fireballs,” they are named for the constellation Taurus—the bull—from which the meteors appear to […]

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars.This post was originally published on this site