Scientists suggest that an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month may be one of the oldest astronomers have ever encountered. Researchers from the University of Oxford noted that comet 3I/ATLAS could be an order of 3 billion years older than…
The Anders Earthrise crater, featured in the famous image, has helped the European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft improve its tools for searching for extraterrestrial life. (Image credit: Earthrise image: NASA, annotation added by ESA; RIME radargram: ESA/Juice/RIME) The lunar crater…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected thick layers of dust in the Cat’s Claw Nebula, a star-forming region located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency reported. “It’s a cat’s meow,” NASA said in a press…
An illustration of an exoplanet passing in front of its star. The square grid represents individual pixels taken by NASA’s TESS satellite. (Image credit: Nikolai Berman/University of California, Irvine) The roughly 200 exoplanets outside our solar system discovered by astronomers…
Students have developed a hybrid drone that can effortlessly switch between flying in the air and swimming in water. A working prototype of the drone was created as part of a bachelor’s thesis at Aalborg University in Denmark, and the…
(Image credit: Diana Robinson Photography via Getty Images) The two meteor showers will peak on the night of July 29-30, when the Moon disappears, giving the chance to see about 25 meteors per hour in dark skies. The main event…
The New Kingdom cemetery contains mummies, amulets, statues, organ jars and a 43-foot papyrus scroll containing part of the Book of the Dead, but experts have yet to reveal its contents. Share this article Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn…
Hidden in the Japanese landscape is a surreal city of abandoned hotels that has been frozen in time and remains untouched. Share this article Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email Copy link Link copied Bookmark Comments An…
A non-hormonal birth control pill for men that aims to block spermatogenesis is in early clinical trials. (Image credit: Wavebreakmedia via Getty Images) An experimental non-hormonal birth control pill for men has just completed its first safety trials in humans.…
What was once a picturesque main street is now a ghost town with many huge hotel complexes slowly crumbling along the river at the foot of the cliff. Share this article Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky Email…