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6 Galaxies Trapped In The Web Of An Ancient Supermassive Black Hole

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A black hole 1 billion times the Sun’s mass sits at the center of this galactic web. Key Takeaways _________ A Cosmic Web Ensnaring Six Galaxies Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered six galaxies clustered around a supermassive black hole in the early universe. These galaxies, collectively known as […]

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Study Confirms ‘Abrupt Changes’ in Antarctica – And The World Will Feel Them

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Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is shrinking rapidly, the floating glaciers known as ice shelves are melting faster, the ice sheets carpeting the continent are approaching tipping points and vital ocean

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JWST Just Found a New Moon Hiding Around Uranus (And It’s Tiny)

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A new discovery has just brought the total number of Uranus’s known moons to 29. In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen before, not even in data from the Voyager 2 probe that flew past Uranus at a close distance in 1986.

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This Incredible Brain Implant Can Decode Inner Thoughts Into Speech

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Scientists are making significant strides forward in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, and a newly developed system can translate our thoughts into text or sound. It’s essentially an inner speech decoder, developed by researchers from institutions across the US. In tests on four volunteers with severe paralysis, the decoder hit an accuracy rate of up to 74 percent

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Scientists Are Using Earth’s Shadow to Hunt For Alien Probes

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For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical instruments, scanning the skies for artificial signals. Now, researchers are taking a different approach, this time looking much closer to home for alien artefacts that might already be in our Solar System. A new study published in Monthly Notices of the

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17-Year-Old Discovers Planet 6.9 Times Larger Than Earth On The Third Day Of Internship With NASA

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Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  His first task was to investigate fluctuations in star brightness acquired by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as part of

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At 2.2 Billion Years Old, This is the Oldest Impact Crater on Earth

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Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a massive scar.Around 200 million years older than any other site like it on the planet’s surface, the so-called Yarrabubba impact structure is located in Australia. Although the impact site is the oldest found to date, finding it was not easy.Our

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Breaking: NASA Just Released First-Ever Images Of Venus’ Surface Taken With Visible Light

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In a groundbreaking announcement today, NASA has revealed the first-ever images of Venus’ surface taken using visible light. This momentous achievement marks a significant milestone in humanity’s quest to explore and understand our neighboring planet. Venus, often referred to as Earth’s “sister planet,” has long captivated scientists and space enthusiasts alike with its enigmatic atmosphere

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NASA Aiming to Build Nuclear Reactor On the Moon by 2030

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Interim NASA chief Sean Duffy will announce the ambitious goal this week, according to Politico. NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon. For several years now, the agency has been working to get a 40-kilowatt fission system ready for launch to the moon by the early 2030s. But interim NASA chief Sean Duffy is about

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‘We Want to Get There First and Claim That for America’: NASA Chief Explains Push for Nuclear Reactor on the moon (video)

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“If we’re going to engage in the race to the moon and the race to Mars, we have to get our act together.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA’s interim administrator says his call for the United States to put a nuclear reactor

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