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Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter And Is 27 Billion Years Old
18th March 2024 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth, Space

Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs of a Big Bang that took place 13 billion years earlier than current models suggest. This research was published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
15th March 2024 | nature.com | Earth, Humans, Space

The debate occurred at a packed session featuring Hairuo Fu, a graduate student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who is a member of the team that found the fragments…Many scientists have said they don’t want to spend much time analysing and refuting these claims.

‘Larger than Everest’ comet could become visible to naked eye this month
12th March 2024 | theguardian.com | Earth, Humans, Space

A comet that is larger than Mount Everest could become visible to the naked eye in the coming weeks as it continues its first visit to the inner solar system in more than 70 years, say astronomers.

Every 2.4 Million Years, Mars Does Something Unexpected to Our Ocean’s Depths
12th March 2024 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth, Space

A slow cosmic dance between Earth and Mars has a hidden effect on cycles in the deep ocean. According to a new analysis of the deep-sea geological record, the gravitational interaction between the two planets results in cyclic changes in deep ocean currents that recur every 2.4 million years.

Astronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep space
8th March 2024 | theguardian.com | Humans, Space

Astronomers have observed a distant planet that could be entirely covered in a deep water ocean, in findings that advance the search for habitable conditions beyond Earth.

The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die
5th March 2024 | nytimes.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

Mainstream science has done its best to debunk the notion, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum.

‘Mathematically perfect’ star system being investigated for potential alien technology
29th February 2024 | livescience.com | Humans, Space, Weird

Late last year, astronomers discovered a fascinating star system only 100 light-years away from us. Its six sub-Neptune planets circle very close to their host star in mathematically perfect orbits, piquing the interest of scientists searching for alien technology or technosignatures, which they argue would offer compelling evidence of advanced life beyond Earth.

Bizarre ‘Russian doll stars’ predicted with Einstein’s general relativity equations
26th February 2024 | livescience.com | Space, Weird

A new solution to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity suggests hypothetical gravitational stars that look like black holes could be nested within one another.

An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5 million years ago
6th February 2024 | sciencenews.org | Ancient, Earth, Space

The evidence comes from a chemical analysis of more than 100 tiny pieces of rock entrained within the White Continent’s ice, researchers report in the Feb. 1 Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

‘Old smokers’: astronomers discover giant ancient stars in Milky Way
31st January 2024 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Space

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious group of giant elderly stars at the heart of the Milky Way that are emitting solar system-sized clouds of dust and gas. The findings are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

‘This might be the seeds of life’: Organic matter found on asteroid Ryugu could explain where life on Earth came from
30th January 2024 | livescience.com | Earth, Humans, Space

A detailed investigation of asteroid Ryugu samples has provided further evidence that the organic molecules which gave rise to life to our planet were brought here by ancient comets.

Mars Express finds evidence of large water deposit at the Medusae Fossae Formation
20th January 2024 grahamhancock.com | Humans, Space

Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice? ESA’s Mars Express has revisited one of Mars’s most mysterious features to clarify its composition. Its findings suggest layers of water ice stretching several kilometers below ground—the most water ever found in this part of the planet.

Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time
18th January 2024 | vox.com | Ancient, Space, Tech, Weird

Monsters lurk in the background of James Webb Space Telescope images. Scientists are scrambling to make sense of them.

Scientists make huge discovery – that ‘challenges our understanding of the universe’
14th January 2024 news.sky.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

Scientists have discovered a huge ring-shaped structure in outer space – and it’s so big that it challenges our current understanding of the universe.

Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy Seen With Pond-Like Ripples in Astronomical First
7th January 2024 | sciencealert.com | Space, Weird

Astronomers have detected pond-like ripples across the gaseous disk of an ancient galaxy. What caused the ripples, and what do they tell us about the distant galaxy’s formation and evolution? And whatever happened, how has it affected the galaxy and its main job: forming stars? See the research here.

Is oxygen the cosmic key to alien technology?
5th January 2024 | eurekalert.org | Humans, Space, Tech, Weird

In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank explores the links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets.

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