These Amazing Striped Icebergs in Antarctica Look Like Candy
They might look like candy, but the ᵴtriƥes are actually salty. Photo: Oyvind Tangen Icebergs form when large blocks of ice break off a glacier or an ice…
Bees Create Beautiful Heart-Shaped Hives When They Aren’t Forced Into Frames
Have you ever seen honeycomb as beautiful as this? Image credit: National Trust Who needs more evidence that bees are artists than these incredible photographs of heart-shaped natural…
Oldest Rocks on Earth Discovered – They Are More Than 4 Billion Years Old
Scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest rocks, dated at 4.28 billion years, surpassing previous findings by 250 million years. Greenstone – the oldest rock formation ever discovered. Image credit:…
Scientists discover possible connection between human brain and cosmos on a quantum scale
The human brain, with its intricate networks of neurons, has long been a subject of fascination and mystery. Concurrently, the cosmos, with its vastness and complexity, has intrigued…
A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From
When ‘Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one knew where it came from. Astronomers, on the other hand, think they know how Comet 2I/Borisov got…
Scientists will launch next step to Find Aliens this week
In a few days, a £1.4bn probe will be blasted into space on an eight-year mission to find signs of life on other worlds in our solar system….
Rare green comet is passing by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years
A green comet that has just been discovered is going to fly past our Pale Blue Dot and could possibly be seen with the unaided eye. NASA and…
Aliens will be found in a matter of years, astronomy says
Humanity will detect alien life on distant worlds in the next few years, a top British astronomer has predicted. Professor Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of astrophysics at the…
For the first time, astrophysicists have caught a star eating a planet
A dusty belch is all that remains of a planet that was gobbled up by a star about 12,000 light-years away. It marks the first time anyone has…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope snaps incredible images of a star 25 light-years away – and it’s unlike ANYTHING seen before
Incredible new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a solar system in greater detail than ever before. Fomalhaut is a star approximately 25 light years…