Author: Daniel Tom

The Roman emperor Caligula, who had been governing for four years from AD 37 until his assassination, was said to own an exquisite 2,000-year-old ring of Sapphire. The sky blue hololith, made from a single piece of the precious stone, is believed to have been owned by Caligula. The face engraved into the bezel is…

Nothing is standing or stationary. As you are reading this, the Earth spins around its own axis; it revolves around the sun, the sun is moving through space at a stunning 792,000 km/h around the gigantic center, and our universe is moving at a mind-boggling 2.1 million kilometers per hour. You may contemplate that as…

Keep your eyes on the skies as two meteor showers are peaking this week.The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids showers will be visible over the UK and easy to spot. USA and its neighboring countries will also be see these events. People living in USA can click here for more info. Here is everything you…

Time as we know it could start changing and we may begin to see shorter days. That’s because the world is spinning faster than ever, scientists have revealed. But while it might sound frightening, experts say it’s nothing to be concerned about and the impact will be fractions of a second over a year.  …

The remains of a man were discovered in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England, and were given the name Cheddar Man. Cheddar Man was discovered around the turn of the twentieth century and is thought to be from the Mesolithic era. Cheddar Man appears to have received little attention, and he was most likely…

Black holes are great at sucking up matter. So great, in fact, that not even light can escape their grasp (hence the name). But given their talent for consumption, why don’t black holes just keep expanding and expanding and simply swallow the Universe? In 2018, one of the world’s top physicists came up with a…

The United States is recognized by all countries in the world as the owner of the best airforce in the world. According to statistics from the British “International Flight” magazine, the size of the active fleet in the United States has reached as many as 13,232. Such a huge number of military aircrafts, this is…

LRSVM Tamnava (Lanser Raketa Samohodni Visecevni Modularni Tamnava) is a new modular multiple rocket launcher (MLRS) developed by the Serbian state-owned company Yugoimport SDPR in collaboration Military Technical Institute (Vojnotehnicki institut; VTI). Tamnava developed by the Serbian state-owned company Yugoimport SDPR, was first presented in December 2018 at the Egyptian exhibition EDEX. The following year,…

On October 24, NASA’s $1 billion Juno spacecraft took its ninth series of breathtaking flyby photographs while travelling at more than 130,000 kilometres per hour above Jupiter. However, the sun slipped between the massive planet and Earth for more than a week, preventing the spacecraft from broadcasting back its valuable data. Previous article has been…

DAN CASELDEN WAS up late on November 3, 2018, playing the video game Counter-Strike, when he made astronomy history. Every time he died, he would jump on his laptop to check in on an automated search he was running of NASA space telescope images. Suddenly, in the early hours of the morning, something bizarre popped…