Quote of the Week
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
Franklin D. RooseveltTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Repeating radio signals lead UMW astronomers to a rare binary white dwarf star system
A strange Milky Way radio source links repeating cosmic bursts to a compact pair of stars locked in an 80-minute orbit.
China’s Chang’e-7 targets the Moon’s South Pole in search of usable water ice
China’s next lunar mission will combine orbiting, roving and hopping to explore some of the Moon’s coldest and hardest terrain.
Cosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwise
Nonlinear plasma effects could reopen 10 orders of magnitude in mass for one of physics’ leading dark matter candidates.
Ancient Toba eruption reveals a supervolcano can stay dangerous for thousands of years
Solidified magma kept moving beneath Toba long after its super-eruption, revealing a volcanic danger that can persist for millennia.