Burial practices on the Plain of Jars – The Past
Subscribe now for full access and no adverts The discovery of a large collection of human remains inside…
Mercury is shrinking — as its iron core slowly cools, the whole planet has contracted by up to seven kilometres, wrinkling its surface into cliffs hundreds of miles long
Mercury carries the record of planetary cooling across its surface. Long, curving cliffs cut through craters and plains…
NASA discovers ‘asteroid’ near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery – The Times of India
NASA discovers ‘asteroid’ near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery The Times of IndiaNear-Earth asteroid…
Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone
A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…
Submillimeter Array Catches a Gamma-Ray Burst Thanks to new Fast-Response System
The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an…
In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet’s tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth
On 2 January 2004, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres…
Scientists Discover the Brain Protein That Helps Alzheimer’s Spread Through the Brain
Researchers have discovered that a brain protein called Arc may act like a delivery vehicle for toxic Tau,…
Scientists Discover Oddball Meteorite That Killed Dinosaurs
A rare CO chondrite meteorite was the probable impactor that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin boosts employee pay to compete with SpaceX—but advisor warns of catch
The space race is getting more complex. Instead of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk just trying to one-up…
An AI searched nearly 100 million old Hubble images in two and a half days and found 1,300 cosmic oddities — more than 800 of them had never appeared in the scientific literature
A machine-learning system called AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million small image cutouts derived from the Hubble Legacy Archive in…
‘The Starry Night’ in space: Dark Energy Camera…
A colorful cloud of gas next to twinkling stars, in space. Reboots and remakes may be all the…
Queen’s scent keeps naked mole-rat colonies peaceful, infertile, study finds
Deep beneath the ground, a naked mole-rat queen rules without a crown. Scientists have now discovered that part…