A new service just launched in North America that allows unlimited phone calls between seniors and “Mary.” Vassili Le Moigne wanted to make sure his mom was OK. Having long ago moved from France to the U.S., the former Microsoft executive struggled to connect with his aging mother as much as he hoped to, especially […]
A Jupiter-size planet as delicate as cotton candy provokes its star
The exoplanet started it. The star will finish it. A gas giant planet in distant space has kicked the cosmic hornet’s nest: After the world’s relentless taunting, its fiery star is after revenge, and the planet will suffer the consequences, astronomers say. Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, …
Astronomers caught a star that blew up not once, but twice when it died
Bang, bang. Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows the first proof of a rare kind of stellar death called a …
Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on July 2, 2025
What can you see in the sky tonight? The moon is in another phase of the lunar cycle, and we have all the information you need about tonight’s visibility and what to look out for. The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 […]