”America Will Lead The Next Giant Leap”: NASA Announces New Milestone In Hunt For Exoplanets
Six thousand exoplanets in 30 years is impressive, but there are over 8,000 more awaiting confirmation.
The World’s Oldest Known Cake Is Over 4,000 Years Old, And It Sounds Pretty Delicious
Although we wouldn’t recommend trying it.
An Ominous Haze Lurks Over The Deadliest Volcano In US, But USGS Says A Repeat Of 1980 Isn’t Coming
Before and after shots of the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption show how truly gnarly it was.
One Star System Could Soon Dazzle Us Twice With Nova And Supernova Explosions
Move over Betelgeuse, there’s a new contender for best supernova to be seen from Earth.
If We Found Life On Mars, What Would That Mean For The Fermi Paradox And The Great Filter?
Last week NASA announced the ”clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”. Amazing news, or a ”crushing blow” for humanity?
The Longest Living Mammals Are Giants That Live Up To 200 Years In The Icy Arctic
Very cold and oh so very old.
Entirely New Virus Detected In Bat Urine, And It’s Only The 4th Of Its Kind Ever Isolated
“We didn’t know it at the time, but some of those samples held a virus that had never been described before.”
The First Ever Full Asteroid History: From Its Doomed Discovery To Collecting Its Meteorites
Asteroid 2023 CX1 was predicted to impact Earth; it left behind a trail of meteorites.
The First Humans Were Hunted By Leopards And Weren’t The Apex Predators We Thought They Were
Homo habilis has been ”dethroned”.