What’s left of the 2024 solar eclipse lives in our hearts

What’s left of the 2024 solar eclipse lives in our hearts

For a few moments this year, the sun was a lime green portal for Vicki Stirm. It happened while she was standing among tens of thousands of people on an asphalt racetrack in Indiana, on the same day our moon briefly stopped our star from illuminating our world.The...
How to help astronomers study gamma-ray bursts

How to help astronomers study gamma-ray bursts

Doomed neutron stars whirl toward their demise in this animation. Credit: NASA. When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can...
Peter Higgs Dies at 94

Peter Higgs Dies at 94

Just like Isaac Newton, Galileo and Albert Einstein, I’m not sure exactly when I became aware of Peter Higgs. He has been one of those names that anyone who has even the slightest interest in science, especially physics, has become aware of at some point. Professor...
ESA – Planetary defenders assemble!

ESA – Planetary defenders assemble!

The team overseeing ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence pose with the spacecraft behind them in its ESTEC Test Centre cleanroom in the Netherlands.They are joined in this photo by representatives from Tyvak International in Italy and GomSpace in...