Space

Jase Parnell-Brookes has reviewed a huge range of skywatching optics, including the best telescopes, binoculars and image-stabilized binoculars. As our trusted authority and expert tester, when they recommend a product and you’re in the market for it, their opinions and recommendations are worth paying attention to. In their Nikon Stabilized 12×25 binoculars review, Jase reckoned they…

Three of NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are starting off the school year with new assignments. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover, both NASA astronauts, will transition into “emeritus status” in September, the space agency announced on Wednesday (Sept. 9). Meanwhile, Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen shared a video on X on Tuesday (Sept. 8)…

A photon, or particle of light, from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, nicknamed “the BOAT” (for the brightest of all time), should not have reached Earth. That is, unless it defied rules defined by Einstein. Now scientists may know how it did this, with new research suggesting how the high-energy photon may have survived a journey of more than two billion light-years…

Scientists have spotted the first hints that Albert Einstein’s formulation of gravity operates in the quantum realm. The hints have to do with observations of a falling quantum object, and though this may not seem like a huge deal (literally, we are talking about atoms here), it could be an important step on the road to a theory of … everything. To start, we have to go back to the…