Author: Daniel Tom

A group of researchers claims to have found what may be the first exoplanet ever discovered in a different galaxy. Although our galaxy may have billions of exoplanets, it is much more difficult to discover new planets even in the nearby galaxies. Now, according to a story in New Scientist, a team of Harvard-Smithsonian scientists…

A pair of 14-inch tubes drilled into the moon’s surface by NASA astronauts 50 years ago. The astronauts, Eugene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, vacuum-sealed one of the cylinders after filling it with pebbles and dirt. Both were returned to Earth. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, scientists are now ready to gently open…

“Are we alone in this universe?” many of us have asked ourselves. Humanity does not yet have a definitive answer to this question, but scientists are always looking for clues to the existence of extraterrestrial life. And there’s no better way to start than finding other Earth-like planets that can sustain life. There has been…

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, but the famous tomb still divulges its secrets and stirs controversy. A renowned British Egyptologist and former curator of the British Museum claims to have found evidence that the tomb’s royal murals and hieroglyphs may have been hastily concealed. Nicholas Reeves has argued…

The United States Navy Stealth Guided-missile Destroyer Zumwalt has an extremely advanced cannon system but it is extremely expensive, with each bullet it fires costs up to nearly 1 million USD.   Costing up to $4.3 billion each ship , the Zumwalt Class is considered the most expensive class of destroyer in the history of…

The general theory of relativity was published by the physics genius more than a century ago, to refine Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime, this model is still currently used by scientists as an explanation of gravitation in modern…

The interest in space phenomena and the hours of reading the book, The Whole Universe, was what prompted Malick Ndiaye to design a telescope with the few resources he had. The boy born in Senegal, just 12 years old, used some old high-magnification glasses that his father used, a camera lens, wire, paper, cans and…

Scientists recently reported discovering what they believe to be the most massive black hole ever discovered in the early universe. It has 34 billion times the mass of the Sun and eats the equivalent of one Sun every day. The study, led by the Australian National University (ANU), reveals how big the fastest-growing black hole…

Astronomers have discovered a star system that hosts not just one, but three super-Earths and two super-Mercury. In fact, supermercurians are so rare that only eight such planets have been discovered so far. A spectrograph operated by Espresso found two “Super Mercury” worlds in the system HD23472. Astronomers point out, these planets are extremely rare.…

NASA’s Juno probe performed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, analyzing the intricate hues and structure of the giant planet’s clouds. These two photos were generated by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. When the raw photograph was acquired, Juno was roughly 3,300…