Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, all the energy in the universe was condensed into a one point. Until suddenly it was not. The resulting explosion was the largest explosion in all of the history of the universe, but from it, energy was formed in every matter, atoms, molecules, planets And eat life on earth. This …
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Saturn’s innermost moon Mimas may be hiding a vast subsurface ocean locked away beneath its icy surface, according to the findings of a new study. Mimas is just one of them SaturnAn eclectic collection of 63 confirmed moons, which come in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes, from The fractured stress formed Enceladus to …
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Astronomers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab have made the first confirmed detection of a star system One day a kilonova formed, An extremely powerful, gold-producing explosion caused by the merger of neutron stars. Researchers said Tuesday that they used data from the 1.5-meter SMARTS telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to …
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe With news of amazing discoveries, scientific advances and more. CNN – A scan of a 319-million-year-old fossilized skull fish It led to the discovery of the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain, shedding new light on the early evolution of bony fishes. The …
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Still image of George Lemaitre from the rediscovered video. (Image credit: VRT) (Opens in a new tab) The only known video interview with Belgian physicist Georges Lemaître, widely considered the “Father of the Big Bang,” speaking of the birth of the universe has been rediscovered nearly 60 years after it was lost. Lemaitre (1894-1966) was …
The long-dead woolly mammoth will return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotechnology company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast. Mammoth gene-editing work begins in 2021. If successful, Colossal will not only bring back an extinct species — one the company calls the cold-tolerant elephant — but it will also reintroduce woolly mammoths …
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The Bay Area is in the middle of Frozen cold snappropelled by a blast of icy Arctic air. But winter temperatures on Mars can drop more than 200 degrees. Amidst these frigidly cold conditions, the Red Planet develops ice, sleet and – at its coldest – several feet of snow. This is not water-based snow, …
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In this latest Photo from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we see spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648 as it appeared as the first multicellular organisms huddled together here on Earth. The spiral galaxy in the foreground in this latest image from JWST is a billion light-years away. Its light had to travel through space for a …
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news of amazing discoveries, scientific advances, and more. CNN – About 125,000 years ago, huge elephants weighed up to eight cars each I wandered into what is now Northern Europe. The towering animal, known scientifically as Palaeoloxodon antiquus, was the largest land mammal …
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Bright, multicolored clouds streak across the night sky over Iceland’s Jökultindur Mountain on January 25. (Image credit: Jónína Guðrún Óskarsdóttir) (Opens in a new tab) dark sky in Arctic Circle It recently shone with a multicolored ethereal light. But this amazing sight wasn’t caused by the Northern Lights. Instead, iridescent rainbows were caused by clouds …
CONNECTICUT – The February Full Moon on Sunday, February 5, owes its nickname—the Snow Full Moon—to the fact that it is at its brightest during the snowiest time of the year. Although most of the state is brown as a mulberry, there are a few white spots in the northern reaches. Sunday night forecast for …
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A team of scientists, consisting of experts from the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has declared a game changer by issuing one of the most accurate measurements yet of the distribution of matter in the universe. The analysis combines Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope data to understand the evolution …
A new accurate map of everything in the universe has been released Read More »
