As the Sun sets over the dry plains of rural Texas, something unusual begins to happen inside a series of long metal buildings surrounded by empty land. One by one, giant roofs slowly roll open, exposing hundreds of telescopes pointed toward the night sky. Some belong to hobbyists in Europe. Others are controlled by astrophotographers …
At an age when most teenagers are focused on schoolwork and video games, Taylor Wilson was attempting something that even advanced laboratories struggle to achieve. Working from his parents’ garage in Reno, Nevada, the 14-year-old successfully built a functioning nuclear fusion device known as a fusor. Using vacuum chambers, high-voltage equipment, deuterium gas and self-taught …
Spring equinox celebrations at Stonehenge At 10:01 GMT this morning, something happened that has been happening for 4.5 billion years, and yet remains quietly astonishing: Earth arrived at the precise point in its orbit where neither pole leans toward the Sun. For one suspended instant, our restless, tilted planet was perfectly balanced relative to its …
NEW DELHI: A total lunar eclipse, which will be visible across India, will take place on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. During a total lunar eclipse, the entire Moon passes into the Earth’s umbral shadow. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the March 3 event will have a magnitude of 1.155, making it a deep …
A star 1,540 times bigger than the Sun has changed; will it explode (AI-generated) Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect. The star, known as WOH G64, sits inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, roughly 163,000 light-years from Earth. It …
The Helix nebula, imaged here, lies 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Also known as NGC 7293, it is a typical example of planetary nebulae. (Image credit: Nasa) As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing track. Your parents would …