Starting today, the Earth will be passing through a meteor shower. But in astronomy, the human eye is very much a limited tool. But increasingly powerful instruments are allowing us to peer ever ...

Are you interested in astronomy? Find a time to deepen your knowledge and observe the night sky this summer! The stars, planets, and all the things “out there” are sometimes difficult to see with the ...

How do you correctly use the anthropic principle? The moment you started observing reality, you hopelessly polluted any conclusions you might make about it. The anthropic principle guarantees that you ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration recently began a new observing run that promises to take gravitational-wave astronomy to the next level. According to scientists from across the ...

About 330,000 times larger than the original Kamiokande. Even compared to Super-Kamiokande, it is about 20,000 times ...

This week, I have selected three topics from the news that are "useful to know" and "make you want to talk to someone about ...

Cassiopeia the Queen reigns over one of the richest regions of the Milky Way north of the celestial equator. This month, we visit some of her lesser-known subjects. Let’s begin with open cluster NGC ...

Scientists have for the first time observed the early universe running in extreme slow motion, unlocking one of the mysteries of Einstein's expanding universe. The research is published in Nature ...

In a hypertorus model of the Universe, motion in a straight line will return you to your original location, even in an uncurved (flat) spacetime. This multiply connected topology might be able to be ...