How streetlights may be affecting birds, bats and insects at night in ways scientists did not expect

The link between artificial light at night, street lights, light pollution, biodiversity destruction, nocturnal fauna, bats, ...

NASA's AWE instrument completes mission to study Earth's effect on space weather

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its ...

‘We are capturing millions of galaxies in a single image’: NASA offers sneak peek at new space telescope ahead of September launch

Is NASA about to solve the mystery of dark energy? With the help of their newest space telescope, that idea might not be as far-fetched as we might think.
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Astronomers spent six years chasing a cosmic miracle until they found a supernova so rare it appeared five times at once in the same sky

A rare supernova appeared five times in the sky, giving scientists a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding ...
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NASA’s Webb just peered into the heart of the Circinus galaxy — peeling back the dust to watch a supermassive black hole feed

Thirteen million light-years from Earth, a supermassive black hole is eating. It sits at the center of the Circinus galaxy, ...
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Astrophysicist Stan Woosley awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for theoretical work on supernovae

UC Santa Cruz professor shares one of cosmology's highest honors with Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley and Ken Nomoto at the ...
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Astronomers just set an AI named RAVEN loose on NASA’s TESS data — and it is already flagging hidden worlds across millions of stars

Faith Hawthorn had a problem most astronomers would envy. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS, had ...
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Catholic Iowan leads effort to put cross on the moon

By Dan Russo The Catholic Messenger Beginning with the contributions of Mount Pleasant native Dr. James Van Allen, known as .
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Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22

Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22), ...
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NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS reveals its most complete look at the night sky yet

TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the ...

New eruption discovered in the Bismarck Sea

It's a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the moon and Mars than of the ...