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Finalists of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest Bring Us Exceptional Views of the Stars

“Waterfall” by Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints (Israel) “This waterfall is in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, but the closest city is Arvidsjaur. It was very cold and while the photographer was waiting for the aurora to start, she put the camera outside to capture the star trails. The last few frames caught the start of Northern Lights and the photographer decided to merg

Don’t Miss Rare Alignments Of 5 Planets For First Time in 100 Years

This month, the planets will align for an event that hasn’t occurred in a century. According to Sky and Telescope, five planets visible to the naked eye will line up in orbital sequence around the sun for a planet parade. From left to right, you can observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in the southeastern sky before sunrise. Mercury will be near the horizon when the spectacle

Scientists Have Created Ice-19, A Brand New State of Matter

A new study by a team at the University of Chicago, published in the October 14, 2021 issue of the journal Nature Physics, reports on the creation of a new phase of ice called "superionic ice". Turns out, the ice that tinkles in our glasses of Coke, known as Ih, is actually just one of at least 19 different phases of ice. Structure of regular ice. Source: Psiĥedelisto/Wikimedia Commo

NASA Releases Stunning New Photos Of Jupiter Captured By Its $1 Billion Juno Spacecraft

Juno is a NASA space probe that orbits Jupiter. Lockheed Martin built it, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory operates it. As part of the New Frontiers programme, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC. NASA’s $1 billion Juno spacecraft captured spectacular flyby photographs while traveling at more than 130,000 kilometres per hour above Jup

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years

Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of supporting oxygen-dependent animals such as humans. On the Moon, there is an abundance of oxygen. It is just not in a gaseous state. Rather than that, it is trapped inside regolith — the lunar surface's covering of rock and fine dust. Would oxyg

Pair of Uniquely Preserved Prehistoric Cave Lions Found in Siberian Permafrost

Two cave lion cubs that died up to 44,000 years ago were found perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. Scientists say it would be much easier to clone them than the woolly mammoth and that’s what they are about to do. One of the cubs is a female the sicentists named Sparta. Credit: Alexey Mihaylov According to the researchers involved in the discovery, one of the cubs starved to de

Man points camera at ice – then captures the unimaginable on film

Photographer James Balog and his team were examining a glacier when their cameras caught something out of the ordinary. The incident took place in Greenland, where James and his mates were gathering images from cameras that had been deployed around the Arctic Circle over the years. James and his crew were looking for some good shots for an upcoming documentary, but no one was prepared for wh

Harvard Astronomer Says Our Universe Could be an Alien Lab Experiment

According to Avi Loeb, the longest serving chair of astronomy at Harvard University, our civilization can barely be considered a class C civilization while our universe might be an alien lab experiment created by an advanced class A civilization. Avi Loeb is a physicist who never disappoints with his controversial theories about extraterrestrials. Harvard’s former chair of astronomy recentl

Asteroid as Powerful as 50 Megaton Nuke May Slam Into Earth in 2023 – NASA

A large asteroid that could someday be headed directly for Earth would pack a tremendous impact force 1,500 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs combined, the newspaper Express warned. The British daily cites NASA sources as claiming that the space rock, measuring nearly 700 feet across, could have a staggering 62 different potential impact trajectories with Earth with e

8 Miles Of Prehistoric Paintings Is Discovered In Remote Amazonia And It Showcases Animals That Are Long Gone By Now

When it feels like we know the world around us all too well, and there are few things that can surprise us, the wonders of history and nature prove us wrong. Just recently, the British-Colombian team of archaeologists led by José Iriarte announced the bombshell news. Tens of thousands of cave paintings created up to 12,500 years ago were discovered in Serranía La Lindosa, in the remote Amazon