NewsSpace

When is the next 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse visible from North America?

It may not be as dramatic as a total solar eclipse, but there’s something equally epic about watching Earth’s shadow gradually engulfing and coloring the moon during a total lunar eclipse. The next total lunar eclipse — colloquially called a “blood moon” — will occur on Sept. 7-8, 2025, but it won’t be another 177 days until the phenomenon is visible from parts of…
Read more
NewsSpace

Nikon Stabilized 12x25 S binocular review

The Nikon Stabilized 12×25 S binoculars are my top recommendation for a compact binocular with image stabilization built in, all for under $650. It was back about three years ago in a previous review of the Nikon Monarch HG 10×42 binoculars that I yearned for Nikon to release image stabilized binoculars, and thankfully, just a few years later, that wish has been fulfilled. They are…
Read more
NewsSpace

1st Indian astronaut to visit ISS welcomed home as a hero

Shubhanshu Shukla, who recently became the first Indian to visit the International Space Station (ISS), received a grand welcome in his hometown of Lucknow in northern India earlier this week. Shukla returned to India from the U.S. on Aug. 17, following an 18-day mission in…
NewsSpace

Official death count of 2023 Hawaii wildfires doesn’t capture true toll, study suggests

In August 2023, the deadliest fires the U.S. had seen in a century tore through Lāhainā, Maui, devastating the town and taking the lives of between 100 and 102 people, according to an official death count at the time — and, as the planet warms and the climate changes, scientists expect wildfires to grow in number. Now, two years after those tragic Lāhainā wildfires, researchers have taken a…
Read more
NewsSpace

Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved

White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics. A rare few, however, are anything but. In recent years, astronomers analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft identified a handful of white dwarfs hurtling through the Milky Way at breakneck speeds of up to 1,240 miles per second (2,000…
Read more