Orionid meteor shower 2026 — How to see meteors from Halley’s Comet this October
The Orionid meteor shower returns this October, giving skywatchers another chance to catch a glimpse of debris left…
Reduced incidence of little red dots at z < 3 based on number density and halo mass evolution
Labbé, I. et al. A population of red candidate massive galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature…
Anthropic’s Claude Science creates the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky
Anthropic’s Claude Science just mapped the entire sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. The project is…
12 Trillion Tons of Polar Ice Are Already Gone and What’s Left Is Melting Fast. But the Biggest Culprit Isn’t Surface Melting
A photo showing polar ice melting in Greenland. Image credits: Dave Meckler/Unsplash The world’s great ice sheets are…
A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy
For the first time, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has demonstrated that it can detect the…
A quantum prediction from 1931 just came to life
Nearly a century after Nobel laureate Hans Bethe predicted their existence, scientists have created and observed unusual quantum…
Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon | Conservation
By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals…
The Sky Today on Friday, October 9: Dense, ancient M30
Back to Article List This dense globular cluster is the only Messier object in Capricornus, perfectly positioned for…
US waste company plans 60MW waste-to-energy plant in Vietnam
David Duong started his business 34 years ago with eight used collection trucks that he drove around Oakland.…
Canada can’t launch rockets on its own. A handful of companies want to change that
As the only G7 nation without its own launch capabilities, Canada is eager to have a Canadian-made rocket. …
To Win A Nobel Prize, Go To The Ends Of The Earth
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino…
From an Exercising Bear to Posing Beavers, View the Finalists for the 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards
NEED TO KNOW The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards has announced the finalists for 2026, featuring more than 50…