Appearing once again in the morning sky, Mars is visible just before sunrise from October to December. While this might be of interest to stargazers and early risers, Mars has also appeared in the news with startling regularity. In April of 2019, NASA’s Insight lander...
Did you know that there are “widespread ruins of an abandoned solar-power technology” revealing that humans have harnessed the power of the sun for centuries? In an amusing and informative post from the Vatican Observatory’s Faith and Science editor, astronomer Chris...
From solstices, sunspots, and solar wind, the sun continues to fascinate us. Many ancient cultures worshipped the sun as a god. From Egypt to South America, from Africa to Japan, and to the coldest reaches of continental Europe, the sun was worshipped as the creator...
While scientists created the atomic bomb, an actress and a composer created the basis for modern telecommunication June marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but it also marks another anniversary: the founding of the Manhattan Project. During World War II, the race was...
On April 10, 2019, the first image of a black hole and its shadow was revealed to the world. The black hole resides at the center of Galaxy M87. The image was captured by an international array of eight ground-based radio telescopes collectively named the Event...
According to NASA, our inner solar system is full of dust and debris that can tell us new and interesting things about the formation of planets and our solar system. In fact, after years of ignoring dust close to the sun, scientists have discovered a ring of dust...
