Event: Stargazing Nights
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, May 15, 2026 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Observatory Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre at 8:30 offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:32:42 EDT
Dark Matter May Have Left Its Fingerprint in a Gravitational Wave.
Reported by Universe Today
Dark matter makes up roughly 85 percent of all the matter in the universe. We have never directly detected a single particle of it. But a new method developed by physicists at MIT and across Europe may have just opened a door we didn't know existed. When t...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Fri, 15 May 2026 07:03 +0000
Artemis III: The Mission That Has to Work Before Humans Can Return to the Moon.
Reported by Universe Today
Artemis II has barely left the headlines. On April 1st 2026, four astronauts climbed aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, rode the most powerful rocket ever to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit, and swung around the far side of the Moon. The world watched. No...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Fri, 15 May 2026 06:56 +0000
It's Raining Stardust. It Has Been for Thousands of Years.
Reported by Universe Today
Right now, as you read this, Earth is drifting through a cloud of debris from an ancient stellar explosion. Stardust, real stardust, is raining down on us so thinly scattered that we have only just found the proof. Locked inside Antarctic ice cores up to 8...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Fri, 15 May 2026 06:50 +0000
Baily’s beads seen during a solar eclipse today in 1836
Reported by Space | EarthSky
May 15, 1836: Francis Baily, an English astronomer, saw light shining through lunar ridges during an eclipse of the sun. These are now known as Baily's beads.
The post Baily’s beads seen during a solar eclipse today in 1836 first appeared on EarthSky....
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 15 May 2026 06:42 +0000
Picturing Earth in a New Light
Reported by NASA
A recent analysis revealed where artificial light at night has intensified, as well as where it has diminished....
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00 +0000