The oldest archaelogical evidence of the discovery and use of fire was found at the Evron Quarry archaeological site in Israel which dates back to 800,000 to one million years ago, reported Trend Radars . Some of the flint stones from Evron Quar…
Some asteroids are dense. So dense in fact, that they may contain heavy elements outside of the periodic table, according to a new study on mass density. Image credit: Images of elements (CC by 3.0) . The team of physicists from The University of A…
Following a preliminary assessment, NASA has announced that the asteroid samples its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took from asteroid Bennu are rich in both water and carbon — the " building blocks of life on Earth ," as NASA put it in a triumphant …
A new study is revealing that a reversal in the Earth's magnetic poles 42,000 to 41,000 years ago may have led to environmental crises that resulted in mass extinctions. The period is called the Laschamps excursion and the research used precise…
A pulsar is a highly compact and incredibly dense astronomical object that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, X-rays, and gamma rays, from its magnetic poles. Like a cosmic lighthouse, these universal oddities emit energ…
Luke Skywalker’s home planet in Star Wars is the stuff of science fiction. But Tatooine-like planets in orbit around pairs of stars might be our best bet in the search for habitable planets beyond our solar system. Many stars in the universe come i…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope that was launched in December 2021 and is currently conducting infrared astronomy. It is the largest optical telescope in space and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instru…
Our universe began with a puzzle. For 100 million years after the big bang, it expanded. Then something strange happened — this expansion suddenly accelerated and has continued to accelerate ever since. Today cosmologists think some kind of pressur…
Studying Titan's clouds will help scientists understand why Saturn's largest moon is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. Evolution of clouds on Titan over 30 hours between November 4 and November 6, 2022, as seen by Webb …
On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize in Physics was presented to three scientists for their groundbreaking research on attoseconds, which represent incredibly brief intervals of time that are nearly beyond imagination. Their work using lasers gives scientis…
For quite some time, there has been a proposition that a density spike of dark matter could develop around a black hole, but despite this theoretical notion, there hasn't been any compelling evidence to support it. Nonetheless, in a recent …
Stars are basically spherical, and when they explode, the explosions are spherical too. Most of the time. But an international team of astronomers has observed a disc-shaped explosion – the thinnest yet known to science. The explosion is called a F…
A supernova, pinpointed by amateur astronomers, could reveal unexpected new steps in the deaths of massive stars. The tumultuous massive star, in the final year or so of its life, ejected large amounts of matter into space before going supernova…
There is a black hole in our backyard. Astronomers have found the closest black hole yet at just 1000 light years from Earth, close enough to see the stars that orbit it without a telescope. Marianne Heida at the European Southern Observatory in Ge…
NASA has officially called upon companies to submit designs for a so-called U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) for the International Space Station (ISS). This pioneering spacecraft would have the crucial mission of safely bringing the ISS back to Earth, m…
In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star. Astronomers obtained new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on TRAPPIST-1 b, the planet in the TRAPPIST-1 solar sys…
