The Seven Hour Explosion Nobody Could Explain
Reported by Universe Today
On 2 July 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray burst lasting over seven hours, nearly twice the duration of anything previously recorded. Not only was it the longest ever seen, it repeated, firing off multiple distinct bursts a...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:40 +0000
NASA's DART Mission Also Changed Didymos' Orbit Around Sun
Reported by Universe Today
The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a near-Earth object....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:41 +0000
Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days
Reported by Universe Today
Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something fundamental. You’re assuming the universe is a finished product. A completed wor...
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:21 +0000
The Universe's Most Powerful Particle Accelerators Were Here All Along
Reported by Universe Today
Every planet with a magnetic field has a radiation belt, a region of space where charged particles get trapped and flung around at extraordinary speeds. Earth has two of them, and they've been puzzling scientists for decades. Now, a physicist at the Univer...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:57 +0000
Celebration of Space - March 13, 2026
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
Geek alert! Saturday, March 14, 2026 is Pi (𝜋) Day! When formatting the date with a single digit month and day, separated by decimal points, you get: 3.14, which is the common recognition of Pi.
Pi, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to i...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:28:57 EDT
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
Reported by NASA
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:07 +0000