A Shift in What’s Shaping U.S. Landscapes
Reported by NASA
Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing....
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00 +0000
Astrophysical Calibration Could "Autotune" Gravitational Wave Detection
Reported by Universe Today
The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar to auto-tune in music production....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Thu, 28 May 2026 00:10 +0000
Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
Reported by Universe Today
In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a distant the light of a distant star as it passes in front of it. Th...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Wed, 27 May 2026 22:49 +0000
When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born
Reported by Universe Today
Physicists have thought for decades that microscopic black holes can theoretically emerge not from exploding stars but from delicate "critical states" in which space and time organise themselves into a crystal like structure. Now, for the first time, resea...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Wed, 27 May 2026 22:35 +0000
NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
Reported by NASA
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also prov...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 27 May 2026 21:45 +0000
The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder
Reported by Universe Today
The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. Many of them are far more massive than we think they should be. Now astronomers working with the JWST have found one that seems to have formed before its...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55 +0000