‘Replica’ Sword Turns Out to Be the Real 3,000-Year-Old Deal
This sword has a much longer history than the Field Museum originally thought. Field Museum If you visit the Field Museum in Chicago for its First Kings of Europe exhibit…
Can’t See the Stars in the Night Sky Like You Used To? Blame Skyglow
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
Behold ‘Toadzilla,’ the Massive Toxic Toad That Shocked Park Rangers
Human for scale. Toadzilla was truly a massive specimen. Queensland government Cane toads are unwelcome in Queensland, Australia. The species reproduces like mad and takes a toll on native animals.…
Saturday’s New Moon Will Be Closest to Earth in Over 1,000 Years
A crescent moon just before the moon enters its new phase. NASA This weekend the moon will be absent from the night sky, as it rises and sets with the…
Astronomers Catch Signal From Extraordinarily Distant Galaxy
One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Scientists have managed to do something we’d previously thought impossible…
NASA Reveals Plan to One-Up the James Webb Space Telescope
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
More than 3 billion stars, galaxies are captured in a massive new survey
Astronomers have captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest surveys of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. In a Wednesday release, the Harvard…
Bright Green Comet ZTF Headed Our Way Will Be Nearly Visible to Naked Eye
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now is the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in clear, dark, moonless night skies as it…
NASA Spots Bizarre Formations on the Surface of Mars
An odd Martian landscape may be an icy place. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Mars landscapes have a different kind…
Mind-Blowing Milky Way Portrait Captures More Than 3 Billion Stars
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…