It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

— Plato

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Archaeologists uncover settlement from golden age of ancient Egypt

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 8:00am
A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II
Categories: Astronomy

Archaeologists uncover settlement from golden age of ancient Egypt

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 8:00am
A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II
Categories: Astronomy

Black Communities Affected By Opioids Have Been Mostly Ignored in Settlements

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 8:00am

The settlements that have come out of opioid lawsuits should be going to communities affected most. This isn’t what’s happening for Black communities

Categories: Astronomy

Senator grills Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief, about Elon Musk's involvement in his job interview (video)

Space.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 8:00am
Sen. Ed Markey asked Jared Isaacman multiple times whether Elon Musk was in the room during his interview with Donald Trump, but Isaacman declined to answer directly.
Categories: Astronomy

Scientists Need to Speak Out beyond the Classroom and the Lab

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:30am

Science cannot operate like a black box and expect the trust of the public

Categories: Astronomy

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:00am
Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an effective meditation
Categories: Astronomy

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 7:00am
Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an effective meditation
Categories: Astronomy

US congressional speeches are getting less evidence-based over time

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 6:00am
An AI analysis finds that since the 1970s, speeches by US Congress members have shifted to favour language such as “fake news” and “mislead” over words such as “science” and “statistics”
Categories: Astronomy

US congressional speeches are getting less evidence-based over time

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 6:00am
An AI analysis finds that since the 1970s, speeches by US Congress members have shifted to favour language such as “fake news” and “mislead” over words such as “science” and “statistics”
Categories: Astronomy

Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms

Space.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 6:00am
Experts share why Trump-mandated cuts to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center share is a big deal.
Categories: Astronomy

Biomass fully loaded

ESO Top News - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:30am

Marking a major milestone in the preparation of ESA’s Biomass satellite for its scheduled 29 April liftoff, experts have completed the critical and hazardous process of fuelling the satellite.

Categories: Astronomy

April's Full Pink Moon will rise as a 'micromoon' this weekend — what to expect from the smallest full moon of 2025

Space.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 5:24am
Discover when, how and where to watch the smallest full moon of the year take center stage on April 12.
Categories: Astronomy

How Many Exoplanets are Hiding in Dust?

Universe Today - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 2:14am

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recently submitted NASA white paper—which highlights key findings from the annual Architecture Concept Review—hopes to address as a team of researchers discussed how exozodi orbiting within a star’s habitable zone (HZ) could interfere with detecting Earth-like exoplanets. This study has the potential to help scientists better understand observational constraints of observing Earth-like exoplanets and what improvements could be made for future telescopes and instruments to overcome these constraints.

Categories: Astronomy

Hickson 44 in Leo

APOD - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 12:00am

Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

The Da Vinci Glow

APOD - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 12:00am

The Da Vinci Glow


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

Launch of Amazon's 1st Kuiper internet satellites delayed by bad weather

Space.com - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 9:19pm
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites today (April 9), and you can watch it live.
Categories: Astronomy

Why quantum computers may continue to fail a key test

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 8:35pm
There have been several claims of quantum computers performing at a level impossible to match with a classical computer – most of which have been refuted. Could there be a mathematical reason why this keeps happening?
Categories: Astronomy

Why quantum computers may continue to fail a key test

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 8:35pm
There have been several claims of quantum computers performing at a level impossible to match with a classical computer – most of which have been refuted. Could there be a mathematical reason why this keeps happening?
Categories: Astronomy

World's first baby born by IVF done almost entirely by a machine

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 8:01pm
A baby has been born after being conceived via IVF performed by a machine, with a medical professional merely overseeing the process
Categories: Astronomy