Dust

A bitterly polarised reaction to an FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday threatened to enflame America’s political divisions.The former president said agents “raided” his Florida resort and broke into his safe, a…

June 13, 2022, Mountain View, CA – New research detected strong polarization from a young supernova remnant. It provided independent and solid evidence that the cosmic dust in the early…

NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory enabled a UCI-led team of astronomers to study infrared emissions from five nearby galaxies. The researchers found more metal than…

Is our Solar System comparable to other solar systems? What do other systems look like? We know from exoplanet studies that many other systems have hot Jupiters, massive gas giants that orbit extremely close to their stars. Is that…

NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I began our week of guest hosting the NewsBusters podcast by highlighting the downfall of Kremlin-funded RT and why no one should be shedding tears.  Since…

Grayson County trounced Breckinridge and Ohio counties in its first…

There are few bigger questions than how life first got started on Earth, but trying to put in the detective work almost 4 billion years after the event is understandably hard going for scientists. Now it looks as though we might have…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the reason for the dimming of a red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris. This artist’s impression of the red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris shows the star’s vast…