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The Sky Today on Monday, September 14: Connect four
8+ hour, 9+ min ago (299+ words) September 13: Venus, the Moon, and Spica The Moon passes 0.5° due north of Venus at 7 A.M. EDT. In the evening sky, the pair is now standing in line with the tiny planet Mercury and the bright star Spica. If you…...
Webb May Have Found the Family Tree of the Little Red Dots — Curiosmos
7+ hour, 53+ min ago (878+ words) What happens to Webb’s mysterious little red dots as the universe ages? The Saguaro galaxy’s red nucleus offers a way to explore their hidden surroundings. When the James Webb Space Telescope began finding tiny, intensely red sources in the early…...
Can a Single Particle Slap the Universe? (The Rippling Radiance)
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (30+ words) 🤯 Can a single microscopic particle slap the entire universe across the face? ⠀ What if giant natural landscapes are actually a …...
1,000 simulations prove Earth isn't special, shattering cosmic myth | RBC-Ukraine
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (246+ words) Planets suitable for life may form naturally - without a rare coincidence of cosmic circumstances. Planetologists reached this conclusion after conducting over 1,000 computer simulations of terrestrial planet formation, according to SciTech Daily. For the past 30 years, scientists modeled planet formation using…...
Starwatch: A Venus-spotting challenge with a beautiful reward
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (228+ words) The bright planet and the young crescent moon will make an attractive pairing on Monday evening This week’s Starwatch is a challenge but a beautiful reward awaits for anyone who succeeds. The question is: how early in the evening can…...
Mercury Shrinking More Than Previously Thought, New Study Suggests
12+ hour, 22+ min ago (914+ words) The wrinkled scars on Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, indicate that it was once larger and has since shrunk–and it may be shrinking more than scientists previously thought. According to NASA, the smallest planet in our solar…...
Garnet had never been confirmed in a Martian meteorite until researchers examining NWA 8171 at the Royal Ontario Museum found andradite inside a fragment smaller than one millimetre. Some surrounding minerals carry Martian chemistry, but scientists cannot yet tell whether it records an unknown magma, ancient fluid alteration, metamorphism—or debris from an asteroid that struck Mars.
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (766+ words) Andradite in the NWA 8171 Martian breccia is secure, but its tiny host clast could record Martian magma, alteration, metamorphism or material delivered by an impactor. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 14, 2026 · How we edit A rounded grain…...
A Ripple in Spacetime
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (129+ words) Slate On this day in 2015 gravitational waves were detected for the first time by the Advanced LIGO interferometers in Louisiana and Washington state. The waves, predicted by Einstein’s general relativity, are caused by the rippling of spacetime caused by movement…...
Early Sun May Have Devoured A Super-Earth, Scientists Say
11+ hour, 58+ min ago (453+ words) Several planetary systems across the galaxy have "super-Earths", which are rocky worlds slightly larger than our own planet. But our cosmic neighbourhood doesn't have a single one, leaving scientists wondering what the reason is. Now, a new study, published in…...
How Do We Know Moonlight Is Just Reflected Sunlight? (Four Clues, One Ancient Trial And A Rock As Dark As Asphalt)
7+ hour, 47+ min ago (1090+ words) Picture this: a pub quiz. The host asks where moonlight comes from. Every hand in the room goes up. The Moon has no light of its own. It reflects the Sun. Everyone learned this at about age seven. Then the…...