Orcas haven’t changed, but our view of the killer whale has
‘Orcas are psychos,’ quipped a close friend recently. He wasn’t joking, nor was he ill-informed. In fact, he…
Massive Survey of Runaway Stars Reveals a Surprise About Their Origin : ScienceAlert
In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the…
Night sky tonight: Spot the ‘Heavenly G’ brightening the winter sky after sunset on Feb. 9
Refresh 2026-02-09T13:24:08.399Z Monday, Feb. 9: The Heavenly ‘G’ (after dark) See the Heavenly ‘G’ on Feb. 9. (Image…
Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode
Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows…
Magellanic Penguins in Patagonia Are Paying the Price for a New Killer
For the first time in centuries, pumas are back in Patagonia, and they’re hunting a new prey: the…
Climate Change Accelerates, Nature Slows Down
LONDON — Many ecologists hypothesise that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume…
Here’s How to Catch It!
A rare celestial event is coming, a total lunar eclipse that will transform the moon into a blood-red…
Time is real – if you view it through the lens of heat
The way most people think about time is wrong. The notion that we share a ‘common time’ moving…
Solar Chromosphere’s Hidden Layers Revealed By Hundreds Of Ultraviolet Carbon Lines
Scientists are increasingly focused on understanding the solar chromosphere, a region of the Sun’s atmosphere for which diagnostic…
The heart of a giant telescope photo of the day for Feb. 9, 2026
Atop the mountain Cerro Armazones in Chile, construction is underway on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will…
The Thin Surface That’s Breaking Light’s Biggest Rule
Researchers at Nanjing University have just broken a major optical rule with a groundbreaking design for metasurfaces, ultra-thin…
Firefly Targets Feb. 18 For Alpha’s Return To Flight
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