For years, scientists have been baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8...
It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations,' a group of scientists looking for aliens have warned – but the signals are encouraging.
Scientists have hea...
NASA space probes have detected a massive, human-made 'barrier' surrounding Earth, and tests have confirmed that it's actually having an effect on space weather far beyond our planet's atmosphere.
That means we're not just chang...
A scientist has put forward the extraordinary idea that one of the reasons we haven’t found alien life yet is because the universe is, in fact, an alien.
Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University has postured...
The stars are a database of information, from overcoming struggles, to forming healthy relationships, to improving your character, and so much more. This knowledge has been used since ancient times in various cultures, and now it has ...
More than 2,500 years ago in the ancient Near East, the Earth's geomagnetic field was going gangbusters. During the late eighth century B.C., a new study finds, the magnetic field that surrounds the planet was temporarily 2.5 times st...
Who doesn’t love a good story? When the world is in a bit of a state, it’s good to retreat to the comforting fiction of books, movies, and video games. It’s worth remembering, though, that plenty of fantastical fiction has been inspir...
How special are we? A recent research paper suggests that terrestrial-style biology may be rare, and Earth may be among the first examples of a planet able to sustain life in the cosmos. Even as the new kids on the block, humans are s...
The Nebra sky disk is a bronze disk of around 30 cm diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg, with a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols. These are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars (including ...
Ptolemaic astronomy, that is, the astronomy of Claudius Ptolemy's Mathematical Compilation, (Μαθηματικη Συνταξις) synthesized some five hundred years' effort to account for the observed motions of the stars, sun, and planets on the as...
In Astrology, it is a generally accepted belief that a new planetary body is discovered when the collective consciousness of the people is ready for the energy the planet represents. In the late 1970s, the western world was beginning ...
Hello? Anybody out there? Are we alone in the universe? Or is there life somewhere in space or “in a galaxy far, far away?”
Earthlings have been obsessed with such questions since God knows how long. Isn’t that why we just so lo...
Conducting research at the South Pole takes a unique level of commitment.
The sun sets but once a year at the South Pole, and it is a prolonged process. During a recent stay at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, postdoctoral...
