3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1006+ words) The moon would act as a “collection plate,” as it were. As the SETI Institute noted in a statement on September 8, 2026, the study presents the first quantitative framework for testing whether microscopic technosignatures could accumulate in lunar soil over billions…...

1+ week, 2+ min ago   (243+ words) The Mount Lemmon Observatory survey has spotted a new asteroid, less than 1 meter across (less than 3 feet across) that’s headed for Earth. The impact should happen in Earth’s atmosphere near northwest Australia around 16 to 16:30 UTC (11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m....

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (864+ words) By Margaret E. Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dayana Alagirova, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Nanyang Technological University Along with data from the James Webb Space Telescope and future missions targeting Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, the likelihood…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (821+ words) When human astronauts return to the moon’s surface, they won’t be alone. Humans never are. Each of us carries trillions of microorganisms with us wherever we go, including to the moon. The researchers said on August 19, 2026, that the microbes could…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (535+ words) The galactic home of these three black holes is called J0148-4214. It lies 12.5 billion light-years away from us, in the very early universe. So we’re seeing it as it appeared about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, the initiation of our…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (674+ words) What happened in the cosmic dark ages, before the first stars appeared? A tiny new satellite, about the size of a small suitcase, will try to finally answer that question. An international team of scientists, led by the University of…...