A prehistoric cosmic airburst sheds light on ancient artifacts
About 13,000 years ago, a huge comet broke apart and crashed into Earth's atmosphere.
This event wasn't just a spectacular light show; it caused massive...
Fragments from that asteroid that exploded above Berlin have been recovered and they’re really...
On January 21st, 2024, a meter-sized asteroid (2024 BX1) entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Berlin at 12:33 am UTC (07:45 pm EST; 04:33...
New findings about the moon’s history
The Chang'e-5 mission, China's pioneering project that returned to Earth with lunar samples for the first time since 1976, has provided scientists with invaluable...
Black holes or galaxies: Which came first?
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered some groundbreaking insights that could rewrite our understanding of the universe's earliest days.
According to a recent analysis,...
The early universe had small galaxies with oversized black holes
When doing the marketing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA and the other telescope contributors liked to point out how it would...
Hubble sees a bridge of stars connecting two galaxies
The poetic-minded among us like to point out how Nature is a dance. If they’re right, then galaxies sometimes form unwieldy pairs.
With the Hubble...
Could forests become ultrahigh energy neutrino detectors?
I really don’t know how to introduce this article. Neutrinos are elementary particles and are electrically neutral.
They are produced by numerous cosmological events.
Trees, well,...
Black holes are surprising builders of the universe
Once upon a time, at the very beginning of everything, the universe was a place of incredible creation and mystery.
New research has turned our...
How does the cosmic web drive galaxy evolution
Galaxies experience a long strange trip through the cosmic web as they grow and evolve.
It turns out that the neighborhoods they spend time in...
Dust ruins another way of measuring distance in the universe
Astronomers have many ways to measure the distance to galaxies billions of light years away, but most of them rely upon standard candles.
These are...