Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold have teamed up in southern Patagonia to make the first ascent of the Fitz Traverse, climbing seven peaks along the…
Scientists Detect Light Being Ejected From Behind Black Hole, Proving Einstein’s Theory Correct
Researchers have now been able to see light being ejected from behind a supermassive black hole, 800 million light-years away from Earth. These light waves…
When Is August 2021’s Full Moon? Meaning of the Name Sturgeon Moon Explained
This month’s full moon is called the sturgeon moon, and there are a few weeks to go before it rises in the sky. The sturgeon…
Jupiter X-Ray Aurora Mystery Solved, After 40 Years
Jupiter X-ray aurora mystery solved So you think Earth’s northern lights are big and majestic? In July 2021, Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas,…
Giant ghostly ‘hand’ stretches through space in new X-ray views / space.com
An enormous ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s…
The surface of Venus is geologically active /cosmosmagazine.com
A 1,100 km-wide, false-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia, one of the lowland regions on Venus where the lithosphere has fragmented into blocks (purple) delineated…
Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN /newatlas.com
Two particles ready to collide to one another artistic A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists…
‘Stranger than anything dreamed up by sci-fi’: will we ever understand black holes?/ theguardian.com
In the new documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, the work of Stephen Hawking and others in trying to figure out a…
THE SEARCH FOR RARE SPECIES OF AURORA / supercluster.com
From China and Japan to Scandinavia and beyond, people from all over the planet have their own supernatural interpretations of the aurorae. In the His Dark…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell /techregister.co.uk
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell that could support life, study finds Researchers studied images of features on the…