On the left, you'll see the dying red giant. On the right, is the corpse-like white dwarf. superbossa.com/MPP Lurking in the outer folds of deep space, some 5,000 light-years from Earth, two stars … [+3967 chars]
How did Homo sapiens come to rule the planet? Its a question that many archaeologists have struggled to precisely answer, but new research offers fresh support to a longstanding theory: Ancient… [+7796 chars]
A first-of-its-kind 'missing link' object detected in the early Universe may solve the mystery of the oldest supermassive black holes in existence, scientists say. The discovery of GNz7q, a black ho… [+4492 chars]
Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way… [+4990 chars]
On the left, you'll see the dying red giant. On the right, is the corpse-like white dwarf. superbossa.com/MPP Lurking in the outer folds of deep space, some 5,000 light-years from Earth, two stars … [+3967 chars]
Robert DePalma and his team are investigating the last day of the Cretaceous. That infamous day when a 10km-wide asteroid hit the Yucatán Peninsula at Chicxulub in Mexico, setting in motion a chain o… [+19285 chars]
While most people think first of atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuels when considering climate change, the planet's soil actually stores more carbon and could become a major source of carbo… [+4479 chars]
A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish. New oceanic crust form… [+4268 chars]
NASA's Insight lander captured this image of sunrise on Mars on April 10, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) If you think sunrises on Earth are amazing, wait until you see one on Mars. This stunning view … [+1966 chars]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by scientists. The nucleus of comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is about 80 miles in diameter, which is … [+1610 chars]
A key instrument on Nasas James Webb Space Telescope that detects infrared light has fallen to its final operating temperature, just a few degrees above absolute zero. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (… [+2927 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a dusty, red object 13 billion light-years from Earth that may be the earliest known ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The ancient object shows characteristics that … [+3850 chars]
