Science

1 Ship to breach Earth’s CRUST Next year, a 600-foot Chinese research vessel will set sail to find the perfect site from where it will start drilling down to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho), the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle. Scientists have been trying to breach Moho since 1961 to study tectonic activity. Moho lies…

NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a rare exoplanet, whose composition has baffled scientists as it defies all explanations. Officially named PSR J2322-2650b, the Jupiter-sized planet is outside our solar system and its atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it was formed. It orbits a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star,…

Wormholes are one of science fiction’s favourite cheats. Need characters to cross impossible distances? Skip years of travel? Break reality without saying “magic”? Introduce a wormhole.By Season 5 of Stranger Things, the show finally joins a long cinematic tradition. Up to Episode 8, it reframes the Upside Down not as a spooky parallel world but…

Source: Babraham University Implantation, one of the most poorly understood phases of early human development, occurs in the depths of the womb, at a time when embryos are microscopic and well out of reach. Until recently, much of what was known about this critical moment came from limited indirect evidence. Babraham University researchers have taken…

The asteroid Apophis, also known as 99942 Apophis, will have its historic close approach to Earth on Friday, the 13th of April 2029. With its diameter at approximately 375 meters, this NEA will be reaching Earth at a distance of about 32,000 kilometres, just over a tenth of the distance to the Moon. Initial estimates…

Source: Don Pettit via X (formerly Twitter) A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a rare visual connection between the mundane life on Earth and the vastness of the universe outside. Framed from the International Space Station, the image shows a softly glowing planetary horizon illuminated by colours of the aurora, clusters…

If you have ever heard that Earth will soon start having 25-hour days, it might be right. The idea itself is not wrong. Scientists do expect Earth’s rotation to keep slowing. What often gets lost is the pace. These changes unfold so slowly that they slip past daily life without leaving a mark. No clocks…

Whether it be with naked-eye viewing, through a pair of binoculars, or with a beginner’s telescope, a certain amount of planning can make way for viewing enthusiasts to fully enjoy the spectacular events that take place in the sky in 2026. Be it eclipses, aligned planets, or an eight-year supermoon, there are plenty of spectacular…

Photographs taken from directly above the Pacific Ocean have shown large areas of red light emitted against the backdrop of the surrounding environment, enough to rival the scale of a large city. These images, taken by pilots and circulated on the internet, raise questions about whether this phenomenon could be a product of the atmosphere,…

Radio waves from Earth have been moving through space for more than a century. They did not start as part of any grand plan to reach the stars. They began quietly, as a new way for humans to speak across oceans. Since then, those signals have continued outward, spreading slowly into space at the speed…