Radio signal from 9 billion light-years away from Earth captured
A radio signal 9 billion light-years away from Earth has been captured in a record-breaking recording, Space.com said Friday. The signal was detected by a unique wavelength known as a…
Watch a Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Grab and Throw Like It’s Nothing
Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston Dynamics’ Atlas machines are aiming to be the humans of…
Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky at an Alarming Rate. Here’s Why
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
How to watch the ‘Green Comet’ as it makes closest approach in 50K years
A green comet shooting through the morning skies is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth at the beginning of next month. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was first spotted…
See a Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Grab and Throw, Just Like People Do
Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston Dynamics’ Atlas machines are aiming to be the humans of…
A Flying Boat Could One Day Explore Titan, Saturn’s Weirdest Moon
An artist’s depiction of TitanAir, “a relocatable lake lander.” NASA / Quinn Morley Imagine a craft that could soar through the hazy skies on one of the most bizarre worlds…
Meet ‘Toadzilla,’ the Enormous Toxic Toad That Shocked Park Rangers
Human for scale. Toadzilla was truly a massive specimen. Queensland government Cane toads reproduce like mad and take a toll on native animals. Rangers at Conway National Park in Queensland,…
Bright Green Comet Passing Earth Will Soon Be Visible to the Naked Eye
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now’s the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in clear, dark, moonless night skies as it prepares to…
Sweeping Milky Way Portrait Captures More Than 3 Billion Stars
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
‘Replica’ Sword Turns Out to Be the Real 3,000-Year-Old Deal
This sword has a much longer history than the Field Museum originally thought. Field Museum If you visit the Field Museum in Chicago for its First Kings of Europe exhibit…