The biggest mass extinction event on Earth occurred at the end of the Permian period. Now, scientists have found that the terrestrial portion of the event lasted nearly ten times as long as the ocean version.
NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Lets go behind the scenes with the team that creates “sonifications.
It’s time for @AwesomeAstroPod Christmas Panto. This year we have Butch and Suni hijack the ISS. Also space news from 2024 and what to expect in 2025.
Are dark photons as sinister as they sound? What did the curvaton do in the early Universe? And is everything really made of preons?
The Sun is more than just a free heat lamp for your garden, it’s an incredible, dynamic nuclear reaction complete with flares, coronal mass ejections, twisting magnetic fields and the solar wind.
New observations linked with observations 10 years earlier about 2013 TG6’s orbital elements & Catalina Sky Survey search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet.
January 2025 is a PLANETARY month! Mars gets big, Mars gets occulted, Mars gets outshined by Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, then Venus and Saturn pass right by each other, and a brief but intense meteor shower shows up.
This week we take a loot at Dark Comets, Io’s gooey mantle, the colonization of a Ryugu sample, galaxies growing too fast too early, and more.
Happy New Year and let’s check what we have in January Observer Calendar with @ActualAstronomy. With Mars at opposition and Venus is at greatest elongation in the evening sky
Happy New Year! Today we have @CheapAstro investigates our expanding universe, as well as some dead planets.