November total lunar eclipse offers celestial highlight amongst meteor showers and glowing planets
November total lunar eclipse timeline The moon moves right to left, passing through the penumbra and umbra, leaving in its wake an eclipse diagram with the times…
2,000-Year-Old Roman-Era Chandelier is One-of-a-Kind!
An exceptionally rare, 2,000-year-old Roman-era chandelier has been unearthed at an archeological dig in Spain’s Elda Valley. The now preserved ancient artifact once swung from the ceiling…
8,200-year-old Burial Monument in Russia Contains Jewelry Crafted Directly from Human Bones
Nearly a century ago, archaeologists excavating a 8,200-year-old graveyard in northwestern Russia took note of a number of bone and animal-tooth pendants buried with the Stone Age…
42,000-Year-Old Tree Enable Accurate Analysis of Earth’s Last Magnetic Field Reversal
Humans today take Earth’s magnetic North Pole for granted. But over the course of the planet’s history, the direction of its magnetic field has shifted. A new…
Massive Stars Are Stealing Planets From Solar Systems
An explanation for Jupiter-like planets orbiting stars three times the mass of our sun has been proposed by researchers. Our galaxy is a truly massive place. It…
Did space sow seeds of life on Earth? Scientists find building blocks of DNA in meteorites
All the ingredients of our DNA have been found on meteorites now, scientists say. What does this mean? Quite simply that life on Earth could have come…
Scientists Just Took an Actual Picture of a Planet in Another Star System
The planet, known as “b Pictoris c,” is located roughly 63 light-years from Earth in the Beta Pictoris system. Using the additional brightness and dynamic mass data…
Curious Kids: What is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes?
What is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes? – Julia, aged 14, London Matter is “stuff.” It is anything that is made up…
Scientists discover largest gas cloud in space that’s 20 times bigger than the Milky Way
Glowing in the Pegasus constellation are five apparently closely packed galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet — and they are whispering the secrets of galactic evolution to scientists….
Scientists Baffled After Observing Stars That Could Challenges Newton’s Laws of Gravity
A newly published paper published in the Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society presents a mystery that is leaving experts stunned. An analysis of star…