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A recent research study by palaeontologists at University College London reveals that the long-necked giant hatchlings of the past frequently became prey to various carnivores, including…
Planetary scientists examining oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo missions have determined that 4 billion years of meteorite impacts may have contributed only a…
Exploring a Low-Density Planet Compared to Earth Image Credit: NASA Newly discovered planets orbiting V1298 Tau are unusually lightweight, possessing a density comparable to polystyrene. This…
Astronomers reveal new insights into the factors influencing star formation efficiency in the densest regions of galaxies through Caffeine research. GAL316: A massive star-forming region. Image…
Artist impression of PSR J2322-2650b NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralph Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have identified what could be one of the most peculiar known exoplanets. This planet…
The moon may have had a more intricate formation than previously believed. NASA/NOAA Recent theories suggest that multiple collisions with Earth might better elucidate the Moon’s…
Grain cultivation can produce excess food that can be stored and taxed. Luis Montaña/Marta Montagna/Science Photo Library The practice of grain cultivation likely spurred the formation…
Artist Perspectives on the Kuiper Belt ESO/M.Kornmesser The Kuiper Belt, the outer disk of icy rock in our solar system, has been found to exhibit more…
The universe has undergone significant changes. Examining the contrasts between the universe as we perceive it today and its origin nearly 14 billion years ago is…
The findings of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS have revealed a substantial number of interstellar objects in the cosmos. Their widespread presence suggests that such objects are…
The Antarctic Aitken Basin (the predominantly blue region in the center of this topographic representation) is an impact feature roughly 2500 kilometers in diameter, covered by…
A multitude of objects inhabit space, from tiny dust grains to enormous black holes. However, the focus of astronomers is primarily on these objects’ formations, held…
A magnetar, a type of neutron star, can be the source of fast radio bursts Science Photo Library/Alamy A peculiar burst of light from the early…
Picture a winter morning where everything glistens in white. The morning frost serves as a testament to Earth’s water cycle, with dew forming from the chilled…
A recent study by Professor Victor Pasco from Pennsylvania and his team reveals the method for determining the robust electric field associated with thunder, which collides…
Northwest Africa 12264 Meteorite Stones Are Older Than Anticipated Ben Hofnagers Tiny chips from a singular meteorite may completely challenge our current understanding of the solar…
Venus is one of the four terrestrial planets in our solar system. Geologists suggest that the geological activity on Venus today mirrors that of Earth around…
Since the Big Bang, the early universe has contained hydrogen, helium, and a minimal amount of lithium. Heavier elements, such as iron, were formed within stars.…
Astronomers utilizing the very large array (VLA) from NSF have made a significant discovery of a massive gas flow near HW2. Cephaus A enables rapid protostar…
scientist First discovered outside our solar systemcalled Planet1990s. Since then, scientists have found some strange systems. Turn robing from the first recorded exoplanet Neutron Star Jupiter-sized…
A team of scientists from Helmholtz Senturm Dresden Rossendorf, Tad Dresden Institute of Technology, and the Australian National University have discovered an “unexpected” accumulation of Beryllium-10…
Black hole is a spots in the universe that cannot be escaped by light because the gravity is very strong. One of the black holes that…
Fog consists of water vapor molecules that float as tiny water droplets in the air but remain near the ground. Essentially, fog is a cloud touching…
The newly discovered galaxy, called the Firefly Radiance, existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang and consisted of at least 10 star clusters. The…
The Standard Model predicted that the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope would observe a faint signal from a small protogalaxy. However, the common hypothesis that invisible…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long events detected from beyond the Milky Way. The radiative properties of FRBs favor magnetars as their source, as evidenced by…
NGC1386 is a spiral galaxy located 53 million light years away in the constellation Eridanus. This image of NGC 1386 combines data from VST and ALMA.…
Seven billion years ago, the universe’s star formation boom began to slow. What did our Milky Way galaxy look like at that time? Astronomers using the…
A replica of the “Welcome Stranger,” a 100 kg gold nugget discovered in Australia in 1869.Ian Dagnall/Alamy Earthquakes can create electric fields that attract gold dissolved…
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius that hosts seven planets. The period ratios of the neighboring planets are…
Despite recent progress, the question of what controls the star formation efficiency in galaxies remains one of the most debated in astrophysics. According to the dominant…
Ice 0 is Ice Shape If it is possible to induce the formation of ice crystals in supercooled water, University of Tokyo. Ice nucleation in water…
Lunar samples collected by NASA's Apollo missions continue to enable new discoveries.NASA/ESA The Moon's largest crater is thought to have formed 4.338 billion years ago when…
Serpens Nebula: A row of jets appears as red streaks in the upper left cornerNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI) Astronomers have…
Sulfur and chlorine isotopes in Io’s atmosphere indicate that Io has been volcanically active throughout the solar system’s 4.57 billion-year history. This global map of Io…
Astronomers using NASA/ESA/CSA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a typical extremely metal-poor, star-forming, blue, compact dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, I. Zwicki 18…
Paleontologists investigated dinosaur footprints and large assemblages of fossilized plants. Nanushuk FormationIt extends over much of the northern slope of central and western Alaska, varying in…
View from a kayak on Death Valley Temporary Lake, February 9, 2024Michael Kohler/NPS Heavy rain has fallen in California in recent weeks, resulting in the remarkable…
Deep underground in the heart of Asia, two giant plates are colliding with each other. Violent, slow-motion collisions between the geological plates are continuously shaping the…
A University of Michigan astronomer, Sally Ooi, led a study on the star-forming regions of the host galaxy NGC 2366, a typical dwarf irregular galaxy. This…