A Dragonfly for Titan eos.org/features/a-d...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension phys.org/news/2024-11... via @physorg_com

Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it www.space.com/32868-persei...

New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. www.space.com/astronomy/ju...

On July 9, 2025, Earth spun faster than usual, enough to make the day 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours. Add a leap day every 4 years, except: Years divisible by 100, unless they’re also divisible by 400, giving 365.2425 days/year, which is very close to the real 365.2422.

For the first time ever, MIRI on JWST discovered an exoplanet by directl imaging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at energies >0.1 EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. arxiv.org/abs/2502.04513

Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager at 17.4 nanometres, viewing the Sun from a latitude 11.4° below the equator at a distance of 77 million km.

Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast phys.org/news/2025-05...

Two separate axion-hunting groups have turned their gaze to a new potential source: starburst galaxies physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

Scientists discover a new colour by laser stimulation of only M cones and not L or S, which in principle would send a colour signal to the brain that never occurs in natural vision. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The NSF Solar Telescope in Hawaii, the largest solar telescope globally, with the Visible Tunable Filtergraph (VTF), has taken its first images.The new VTF has an unparalleled combination of imaging, spectral, and polarimetric capabilities.

Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica covers an area about the size of Florida. It has the largest ocean front of any glacier in the world.

JWST’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) analyzed 263 galaxies from the early universe and revealed a significant asymmetry: roughly 66% spin clockwise, while only about 33% rotate counterclockwise. Does this mean the universe is in a spinning black hole? academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recognized 128 new moons in orbit around Saturn, discovered by astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States and France. Saturn’s new grand total of 274 moons is almost twice as many as all the rest of the moons in our solar system combined

While NGC 1514 is an elliptical, but complex, planetary nebula at optical wavelengths, it was discovered to have a pair of infrared-bright, axisymmetric rings studied by JWST/MIRI. arxiv.org/abs/2502.21281

The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded 10,000 years ago, situated about 2400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view combines three filters of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.

JWST MIRI imaging filter curves. MIRI uses 3 arsenic-doped silicon (Si:As) IBC arrays.

A trillion-ton megaberg heads toward South Georgia Island. Calving icebergs are happening more frequently as the climate warms and more fresh water flows into the ocean. apnews.com/article/gian...

The expansion rate of the universe remains elusive. Using Type Ia supernovae, the rate was measured to be H0 = 73.24±1.74 (km/s)/Mpc arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02978

JWST spectrum of K2-18b’s atmosphere. The detections of methane and carbon dioxide suggest the presence of an ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. There’s also a hint of DMS, which on Earth is tied to biological activity.

2024 was the first year in recorded history that Earth’s average temperature was higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima....

Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sea surface temperatures. Note 2023 and 2024.

NASA Scientific Balloon Flights to Lift Off From Antarctica www.nasa.gov/missions/sci...

Cascades of muons are byproducts of high-energy cosmic rays as they collide with nuclei in the upper atmosphere, and scientists see more muons at Earth's surface than standard physics models predict. phys.org/news/2024-11...

JWST Disk Infrared Spectral Chemistry Survey (JDISCS) MIRI-MRS observations of the solar-mass star DoAr 33, showing an exceptional carbon-rich inner disk with detections of H2O, OH, and CO2, as well as the more complex hydrocarbons, C2H2 and C4H2. astrobiology.com/2024/10/jwst...

Acidification of the oceans as shown by the saturation state of aragonite (Ωarag), the free proton concentration ([H+]), pH on the total scale (pHT), and the anthropogenic carbon concentration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

South Pole Telescope measurements of the CMB polarization. arxiv.org/abs/2411.06000

#Vela Supernova Remnant. Its parent Type II supernova exploded approximately 11,000–12,300 years ago. futurism.com/astronomy-pi...

ITER, t he $28 billion fusion reactor in France should be ready in 2039. 1g of deuterium-tritium fuel produces 90,000 kW-hr of energy, equivalent to 11 tonnes of coal. iter.org

Aurora seen over Lake Huron in October. Bz: -26.73 nT South, Kp 8, 627.3 km/sec

Diamond Beach in Iceland is an 11-mile stretch of black sand covered with icebergs. www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...

Ring Nebula from JWST