The struggle to find the origins of time
What is time? Why is it so different from space? And where did it come from? Scientists are still stumped by these questions — but working harder than…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND SEVEN PAIRS OF ANGLO-SAXON BROOCHES IN SEVEN GRAVES DURING AN EXCAVATION IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Archaeologists have found seven pairs of Anglo-Saxon brooches in seven graves during an excavation in Gloucestershire Archaeologists have found seven pairs of Anglo-Saxon saucer brooches, one pair in…
Can clouds of Moon dust help fight climate change on Earth?
An elaborate scheme to shade Earth with millions of tons of Moon dust floating in space is unlikely to get off the ground. A group of U.S. scientists…
Swarms of swimming robots may soon explore alien seas
The concept of using robotic explorers to investigate subsurface oceans has been around for years. And a fresh shot of funding might soon turn the ambitious plan into…
3,500-year-old perfectly preserved ancient frozen bear found in Siberian
As the permafrost on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island in eastern Siberia melted, a mummified brown bear that lived more than three thousand five hundred years ago emerged. In an effort…
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Here are DART’s final images before impact
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully showed that it is possible to crash a spacecraft into a small asteroid. Whether the approach could save Earth from a…
Where are the best places to see the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses?
In the next 12 months, an annular and then a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. Here’s where to see them. This distance-decay model shows how many…
11,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in British Cave
An astounding discovery in the Heaning Wood Bone Cave in northern England has revealed the oldest human remains found in the region, dating back 11,000 years. A team…
In pursuit of Planet Nine A slew of oddly orbiting objects seems to suggest a massive and as yet unseen world is skulking in the outer reaches of our solar system.
The hypothetical world called Planet Nine is expected to be a super-Earth or sub-Neptune planet with an orbit that potentially takes it dozens of times farther from the Sun…
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Machine Learning Uncovers Previously Undetected Signals of Interest
The search for extraterrestrial life has been a topic of scientific inquiry and public fascination for decades. Scientists use various methods, such as studying other planets and moons…
ALMA Detects Supermassive Black Hole in Early Star-Forming Galaxy
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected a rapidly growing supermassive black hole in COS-87259, a galaxy that forms stars at a rate 1,000 times…
The strange, speedy stars at the center of the Milky Way
The supermassive black hole in our galaxy’s core is accompanied by a tight-knit group of stars — and we aren’t sure how they got there. Awash in a…