Category: Science

MAJOR Tim Peake may have stepped down from his role as a professional astronaut, but he still has high hopes to return to the International Space Station. Not for a space walk — or to photograph the sunrise 250 miles above the earth — but to save himself any back pain with a weightless night’s...

Chemicals that hint at life have been found in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 120 light years from Earth. ‌The James Webb Telescope spotted signs of methane, carbon dioxide and dimethyl sulphide on “K2-18 b” – a planet nearly nine times the size of Earth which sits in the Goldilocks zone of its star, where...

The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge of the observable universe, and while you might think that means the Universe is 26 billion light-years across,...

A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist’s concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling onto it. — NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have found for the first time a sun-like star being gradually eaten in chunks — as large as three times the size of the Earth — by a supermassive black hole locatedabout...

A new study into the Earth beneath our feet has discovered that an ancient ocean floor structure could be wrapped around the planet’s core which could be taller that Mount Everest in some areas. A brand new high-resolution mapping of the core has uncovered things that scientists previously didn’t know according to a study that...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to perform the fractional Fourier Transform of optical pulses using quantum memory. This unique achievement involved implementing the transformation on a “Schrödinger’s cat” state, having potential applications in telecommunications and spectroscopy. Researchers from the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics, in collaboration with experts from the QOT Centre for...

Summary: Researchers designed a “brainless” soft robot that can autonomously navigate through complex environments using physical intelligence. Unlike their previous model, which could only turn upon encountering obstacles, this robot can turn on its own. This unique movement is due to an asymmetrical design with one half exerting more force on the ground. Consequently, it...

NASA’s new picture is the latest example of a phenomenon known as pareidolia Where brain wants to make sense of what eyes see so creates something not real Looking at this new picture from NASA’s Perseverance rover, you’d be forgiven for thinking there’s something fishy afoot on the Red Planet. That’s because the car-sized robot...

A device on NASA’s rover has finished a world-first experiment generating oxygen on Mars. The toaster-sized instrument produced enough to sustain an astronaut for a few hours, giving hope for future human exploration. NASA has produced enough oxygen on Mars to sustain an astronaut for a few hours in a world-first experiment. The Perseverance rover,...

One of the most well-known groupings of stars is beginning to rise higher in the night sky this season. Look to the east in the evenings throughout September to find the Great Square of Pegasus as it climbs higher in the night sky. On Thursday (Sept. 7), the Great Square should be visible at sunset...