Image credit: Cassini NASA’s Juno solar probe, which orbits Jupiter, just sent spectacular images after a pole-to-pole trip. With three giant swords that extend about…
A binary star in Sauron’s ‘pupil’
Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope; Processing: Douglas Gardner Our Sun, with an approximate age of 4,500 million…
Possible first-time detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Australian scientists could have detected high-frequency gravitational waves: it would be the first time that this has been achieved and it would allow an important…
The longest walking path in the world: 22,000 kilometers and three years of travel between South Africa and Siberia
Everyone (or almost) has dreamed of going around the world at some time. The typical thing that is said between friends in a bar: “We…
Stunning Hubble Images Showing Two Nebulae That Have ‘Going Berserk’
Image credit: Hubble Possibly both had inside them two stars orbiting each other, which with their disappearance created that kind of “pinwheels” of gas and…
This is how will be our collision with Andromeda
A spectacular new image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the collision of three distant galaxies shows us how the Milky Way, our own galaxy,…
This is the tallest tree in the world
Among the most striking scientific curiosities that we can observe directly in nature is the tallest tree in the world. What species is it and…
How are DNA robots that can change medicine?
Nanotechnology promises to bring a revolution to the medical sector in both efficiency and cost Although it sounds like science fiction, the truth is that…
Huge deposits of life-precursor molecules discovered on formation planets
Artist’s concept of a protoplanetary disk around a star (left) and the “soup” of organic molecules in the disk (right). Image via M.Weiss/ CfA. A series…
Orchid fossil evidence 50 million years old
A study documents evidence for an orchid fossil trapped in Baltic amber dating back 45-55 million years ago, breaking the record of 20-30 million years…