Author: Daniel Tom

Astronomers monitoring the sky recently received a major surprise. They discovered a massive galaxy around our own in an area previously unexplored. It popped up, apparently, out of nowhere.       So how could the galaxy, dubbed as Crater 2, accomplish this feat, much like a deer bursting from intergalactic bushes to look us…

For the first time in the history of humanity, we stand a good chance of walking on the surface of Mars! And this is thanks to the dogged ambition of Elon Musk.     The billionaire is building a mighty spacecraft, the Starship, that will take volunteers across the vast distance between Earth and Mars!…

Greenland was once entirely ice-free and covered with trees and vegetation. Scientists have found remnants of ancient trees in frozen soil samples from 1368 meters below the surface. Scientists have long been interested in the secrets and mysteries hidden under the thick ice cover of Greenland. Recently, a scientific team accidentally discovered remnants of ancient…

At Jupiter’s north pole there is an impressive display of geometric precision, with a large perfectly-shaped cyclone surrounded by eight smaller ones. In the same way, five smaller cyclones dance around the large one at its south pole. There is a perfect geometrical pattern of cyclones around the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. Over the…

Estimates by astronomers indicate that there could be more than 100 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way that could be home to life. Think that’s a big number? According to astronomers, there are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the known universe, which means there are around 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5×1022) habitable planets. That’s of course if there’s…

Although we have known for a long time that asteroids are not just cosmic trash but rather potentially valuable stores of precious minerals, humanity has never been able to realize the full potential of these objects. Astroforge, a Y Combinator startup, intends to become the first company to mine an asteroid and return the material…

After unearthing a strange item in the shape of a pyramid at the ocean’s bottom, researchers believe they have found the legendary City of Atlantis. Google Earth revealed the mysterious structure, which is between 3.5 and 11 miles broad and located in the Pacific Ocean just west of Mexico. A YouTube video depicting the discovery…

Al Worden was an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.   The former Apollo 15 member said that not only were aliens real, but they had come to Earth in…

As material swirls into a black hole, it forms a pancake-shaped accretion disk. And the light these disks produce holds the key to understanding the universe’s most mysterious objects. The brightly glowing accretion disk of material around a black hole encodes vital information about the extreme object it encircles. Black holes are regions of austere…

For the first time, one of the world’s most prestigious mathematics prizes was given to a woman. Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, is the first woman to receive the Abel Prize in mathematics.   According to the New York Times, the prize recognises “the basic importance…