About 250 million light-years away, there’s a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable. But now, scientists have uncovered an enormous, bizarre galaxy possibly formed from the parts of other galaxies.
The Björketorp Runestone, The Stentoften and Istaby Runestones, along with other ancient texts from Scandinavia and Sweden are said to hold curses within their warnings.
A 1600-year-old elongated skull of an upper class woman was discovered in a Mexico ruins.
‘This is a system for which I would not want to design a calendar’
A drone hobbyist manages to capture the incredible sight of a young shark being chased by killer whales.
Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died.
“To uncover the nature of dark energy and the origin of our 14 billion year old accelerating universe, we have to compare the results from big studies to computational models of the universe,”
After its much heralded re-start last year, has the world’s biggest machine, the Large Hadron Collider, found a new particle?
Astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other ever found, one that loops widely around one star that is locked in a gravitational embrace with two others in a triple-star system, creating a curious celestial ballet.
