Huge hidden ocean beneath Mars could harbor life Geophysicists have discovered a huge hidden ocean beneath the surface of Mars that they believe could harbor…
Hubble and Chandra discover a pair of supermassive black holes
Hubble and Chandra discover a pair of supermassive black holes Image of galaxy MCG-03-34-064 taken in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s sharp…
Enter LUCA, a 4.2 billion-year-old cell that is the ancestor of all life on Earth today.
Enter LUCA, a 4.2 billion-year-old cell that is the ancestor of all life on Earth today. New research suggests that everything alive today is the…
Scientists have found that contact with nature has an encouraging effect on our psychological state.
Scientists have found that contact with nature has an encouraging effect on our psychological state. A recent study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology…
Study finds active volcanoes on the moon up until the age of dinosaurs
Study finds active volcanoes on the moon up until the age of dinosaurs Three glass marbles brought back by a Chinese space probe suggest that…
An ancient asteroid 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs could hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
An ancient asteroid 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs could hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede New research suggests that Jupiter’s moon…
Vintage NASA photos full of space firsts
The first US spacewalk took place in 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission. Astronaut James McDivitt took this dramatic photo of fellow astronaut Ed White…
Astrophysicists may have found the source of the mysterious “Wow!” signal.
The signal was recorded in 1977 and was initially thought to be an extraterrestrial transmission. On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Observatory in Ohio…
Gravitational waves hint at the Big Bang’s “super cool” secret
In 2023, physicists were surprised to discover almost imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time that form the unified body known as spacetime.…