Egyptian priest mummies burial with a large group of thousands of “attendants” from the afterlife
A mᴀssive burial ground holding the remains of several high priests of ancient Egypt, along with their ᴀssistants, has been discovered in the northern part of the site of…
Earth Might Have Formed in Just a Few Million Years
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. That simplistic statement is common, and it’s a good starting point for understanding our planet and our Solar System. But, obviously,…
This Hot Jupiter is Leaving a Swirling Tail of Helium in its Wake
In a recent study published in Science Advances, a team of researchers commissioned the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is designed to study exoplanetary atmospheres, to examine how a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet is losing…
In a Flash: NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Lightning on Jupiter
NASA’s Juno mission has captured an image of a lightning bolt near Jupiter’s north pole, a sight most often observed on the gas giant as compared to Earth,…
Amazing 5000-year-old ‘graveyard of giants’ in Chinese town leaves archaeologists speechless
Archaeologists in China have discovered a 5000-year-old graveyard of abnormally tall people who used to live in the country’s Shandong province. The skeletal remains measured over six feet…
200 Giant Skeletons, some nine feet tall, were discovered in Cayuga at a depth of six feet.
Discoveries of the skeletons of a gigantic race often surface on various news articles and media, and we are therefore more puzzled to know to what race the…
Spacewalks Ahead: Expedition 69 Astronauts on a Solar Quest
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station’s truss structure 257…
Additional Proof for Massive First-Generation Stars
A few days ago I wrote about the search for Population III stars. These stars were the first stars of the universe. Giant beasts hundreds of times more massive…
A Planet So Hot That the Raw Material for Rocks Is Found in Its Atmosphere
In the annals of “strange new worlds”, the ultra-hot Jupiter planet WASP-76b ranks right up there as a very unusual place. There’s no surface, but it does have…
A Planet So Hot Its Atmosphere Contains the Raw Material for Rocks
In the annals of “strange new worlds”, the ultra-hot Jupiter planet WASP-76b ranks right up there as a very unusual place. There’s no surface, but it does have…