I’m off to see Mom

I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again … stay tuned.

NASA Faces Another Shift in Its Leadership — and in Its Vision November 15, 2025
The next few months are likely to bring a dramatic transition for NASA, under the leadership of a new administrator who has new ideas about changing the course of the space agency.
An Explanation For The JWST's Puzzling Early Galaxies November 14, 2025
The JWST surprised when it detected very early galaxies that were extremely luminous. This suggested that they were more massive than researchers thought they could be. Not enough time had passed for them to grow so large. New research has an explanation.
Machine Learning Discovers Quasars Acting as Lenses November 14, 2025
Astronomers have used machine learning to discover seven new quasar lens systems, arrangements where a quasar's host galaxy bends light from a more distant galaxy behind it. The find more than doubles the number of known candidates and demonstrates how artificial intelligence can unearth astronomical needles in haystacks containing hundreds of thousands of objects. A […]
China's 900 Metre Impact Crater Rewrites Recent History November 14, 2025
Scientists have discovered a 900 metre wide impact crater in southern China, the largest modern meteorite scar on Earth. The Jinlin crater triples the size of the previous record holder and suggests that recent extraterrestrial impacts have been far more dramatic than anyone realised.
The Standard Cosmological Model Is The Simplest Model Of The Universe, But Not The Only One November 14, 2025
A new study of supernovae suggests that the standard model of cosmology isn't quite right. If the data holds up, what other cosmological models might work better?