Scientists initially believed that asteroids hitting Earth, such as the Chicxulub impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs, represent very rare events. There are plenty of reasons why you would be tempted to believe so, and one of them is represented ...
There are two major scientific theories explaining how life might have started on our planet: panspermia and the so-called “primordial soup”. Whether scientists like to admit it or not, there are plenty of questions left unanswered regarding both theories. The ...
Type Ia Supernovae are relevant to astronomers as they are often dubbed as the “standard candles” of the Universe. Their brightness is consistent and of a particular kind of light, meaning that astronomers can compare the luminosity, they should be ...
Can anything live on Venus? Of course, the planet has scorching temperatures, a crushing atmospheric pressure, and so on, but it’s still one of the few rocky planets from our Solar System. The presence of the phosphine gas in the ...
People across the US and Canada are now experiencing some of the most extreme heat events that occurred in centuries. The worst part is that for most people such conditions can be fatal if humidity and temperatures both surpass 95. ...
Climate change has increased the frequency and gravity of hurricanes and other extreme weather events across the globe. However, there is a more considerable threat on the horizon that few people took into account. High-tide floods, also dubbed “nuisance floods”, ...
Weather on other planets has always been a controversial subject amongst scientists. Since the massive discovery of the first exoplanet back in 1992, over 4,000 planets have been found orbiting different stars, resembling Earth a bit but showing strange behavior. ...
Things had been groundbreaking around the Yellowstone volcano in the last two weeks, literally speaking. According to Express.co.uk, the sight was hit by 351 earthquakes all this time, and the huge wave of reports about the jolts began on June ...
New research unveils a new method of predicting if eruption emerges for an underwater volcano via satellite data. Only in the last few years, reports of frequent eruptions of submarine volcanoes were announced. Observing any signs of volcanic turbulence is ...
A spacecraft around the planet Mars has managed to capture the clearest view of auroras on the planet. The United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe has arrived in early February, and it has managed to catch the perfect view of the ...
The Third Pole is now experiencing the worst-case scenario after a new study found that glaciers and snow cover started to disappear. Researchers developed a way to model the region’s water cycling and examine it. The results are genuinely intriguing ...
Scientists found gravitational waves for the first time back in 2015, and since then the scientific field was never the same. LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is an advanced laser that helped scientists capture such gravitational waves and confirm one ...
Today, we will compare two very similar smartphones – The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and the Huawei Mate X2. Though the two devices share some standard features, they are meant for different user types. However, they are both foldable devices, ...
Enceladus, meaning one of the moons of Saturn, has captured the attention of astronomers for plenty of time due to its traits. The Cassini space probe has revealed that Enceladus hides an entire global ocean of liquid salty water beneath ...
NASA is gearing up for a huge event this fall featuring the James Webb Space Telescope. Recent challenge has seen the space telescope performing another key review, and it’s only a big step forward toward its planned mission. Here is ...
It seems that we might be one step closer to finding out more about the real shape of the Universe. Japanese astronomers have come up with new artificial intelligence (AI) technique in order to remove noise from the astronomical data. ...
Astronomers already knew that Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster, and it’s located over 75,000 light-years away from Earth. While trying to understand the source of the cluster’s unique features, an international team of scientists led by the University ...
Global warming continues to threaten Earth, new data show. The West is now affected by hotter summer days, while the East Coast is getting overwhelmed by stickier and hotter summer nights. And that’s not all. Researchers reveal that state-by-state average ...
Just like any other object in the universe, even the mighty and scary black holes have to obey some rules in order to exist. In 1971, the famous genius and scientist Stephen Hawking argued that the black holes’ areas should ...
Antarctica’s new heat record has just been unveiled by the United Nations (UN). The record heat was reached last year, in February 2020, at Argentina’s Esperanza research station. Global warming and climate change continue to shape Earth’s future and it ...
Digging through 230 million-year-old dung for the sake of science isn’t something that you do every day. However, you know what they say that you have to make sacrifices in every job. But for researchers involved in a new study, ...
Probably it may sound like an SF scenario, but we now have enough proof that Florida had once icebergs. How’s that even possible? A series of strange lines carved on the seafloor off North Carolina’s Outer Banks is the main ...
We built cities for centuries, creating some of the loudest habitats on the planet. Then, we still chose them over anything else. We always find our way back to the city, even if the pollution levels rise continuously and the ...
At a first astronomical glance, Jupiter is nothing but a huge wasteland dozen times bigger than Earth. Our neighbouring planet is not even solid, as it’s made almost entirely of gases, such as hydrogen and helium. Common sense tells us ...
Thinking of life on Mars might be quite the challenge. And not only for us but for scientists, too. New data, however, show parts of Mars that have been habitable for thousands or even a million years. How is this ...