Category Archives: Science and Health

NASA’s next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find roughly 100,000 new transiting planets in just five years — along with the largest catalogue ever assembled of rogue worlds drifting through the galaxy without a star to orbit

According to NASA’s December 2025 announcement that construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope had been completed, the observatory is on track for launch by May 2027, with a possible earlier launch in fall 2026. The five-year primary mission is expected to produce one of the largest exoplanet catalogues in the history of astronomy. […]

Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in livers

A research team in Germany has published new data on how pigeons use magnetic fields as a navigation method when visibility is limited. A key part of the long-sought answer could lie in an unexpected organ, their livers.

Rare Blue Micromoon to rise this weekend

This will be the second full moon in the month of May.

Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster

This Hubble image features the active spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88), located about 63 million light-years away.

The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the first direct measurement of a black hole 50 million times the mass of the Sun, sitting in an ancient galaxy where it outweighs every star around it — suggesting it may have formed first

According to the official ESA Webb announcement on 27 May 2026, two papers published the same day, one in Nature and a companion in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, report the first direct mass measurement of a supermassive black hole in the first billion years after the Big Bang. The object sits at […]

Here’s how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms

Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull – 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force – but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this ​mismatched combination of traits. So how did this come to be?

Last-of-its-kind tree clinging to cliffside finds new hope at botanic gardens

Conservationists are in a race against time to prevent one of the world’s rarest island plants from disappearing forever, after seeds collected from the only surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree …

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have struck a planet that was already in serious trouble — a new Johns Hopkins study has found evidence of a separate ecological crisis that began about 30,000 years before the impact, coincident with a high-volume pulse of volcanic eruptions in what is now India

A study published in May 2026 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a finding that complicates the standard one-line version of the dinosaur extinction. Two researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, microbiologists Rosanna Baker and Arturo Casadevall, examined sediment samples from three well-documented sites that span the […]

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding

Humanity’s artificial glow is swallowing the night sky. Even astronomers in this remote observatory in the South American desert cannot escape it.

When To See A Rare ‘Blue Moon’ Rise At Dusk This Weekend

North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This weekend sees a rare Blue Moon.