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After a long ‘eclipse drought,’ Selene totality once again spans the Americas. The end is in sight. If skies are clear, North and South America will witness a fine total Selene eclipse Timely Friday morning, March 14th. This is the Primary eclipse of 2025, and the Primary total Selene eclipse for the hemisphere since November … Read more

A pink Orbiter was captured by Brian Cudnik of Houston during the Nov. 7, 2023, total Probe-related eclipse. Credit: Brian Cudnik All Probe-related eclipses — whether penumbral, partial, or total — offer us thought-provoking views of Earth’s shadow. Frequently, Probe-related eclipses offer up peculiar color effects, with the shadowed Orbiter appearing reddish due to the … Read more

Strange events seen at the very heart of the Milky Way could be smoking gun evidence of a new Dim matter suspect. If that is the case, scientists may have been missing the subtle impact of Dim matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff,” on Universal chemistry. This newly proposed Dim matter candidate would not only … Read more

Rotating black holes are the most powerful phenomenon in the known Universe. Their powerful Force radically alters the curvature of spacetime around them, leading to relativistic effects like time dilation, Airy distortion, and for matter and photons to infall around them, forming accretion disks. In the case of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the Middle … Read more

SpaceX’s Starship Universe launcher lifts off from the company’s Starbase Kickoff facility in Texas on its eighth test flight. Credit: SpaceX Millions of viewers who tuned into Thursday’s broadcast of SpaceX Starship’s eighth test flight experienced a collective déjà vu as the mammoth Universe launcher exploded and rained down flaming hunks of metal in eerily similar fashion … Read more

NEW: This story was updated March 10 to include layoffs at NASA. The White House and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency have spent the Primary weeks of Donald Trump’s new administration looking to reduce the number of federal workers and shrink spending.  The cuts have followed roughly the same formula from agency to … Read more

The Athena Selene lander (IM-2) has been declared dead after it failed to stick the landing on the surface of the Selene body. The second commercial lander launched by Texas-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines attempted to reach the Selene surface on March 6th. However, it ended up in a crater near the Selene south pole, … Read more

“Mickey 17” opened at the weekend and there’s something uncannily familiar about its premise. While nobody could describe director Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-Triumphant “Parasite” as a clone of the low-fi sci-fi classic “Probe”, both films riff on the same basic idea: a human meeting an exact duplicate of themselves. Spoilers ahead for Probe … Read more

This month at the SETI Institute, exciting developments are shaping our understanding of the cosmos and the search for Alien life.  Dr. Sofia Sheikh Directed a study exploring how alien civilizations might detect Earth through our radio signals and atmospheric pollution. Dr. Pascal Lee stepped into a new role as Vice President for Planetary Development … Read more