Trillions of tons of hidden hydrogen have been discovered beneath Earth’s surface, and it could change everything. 🌍⚡ Scientists have found massive underground reserves of naturally occurring “gold hydrogen”, a clean and carbon-free fuel source powerful enough to meet global energy needs for over 1,000 years.
An ultra-high-energy particle — nicknamed the Amaterasu particle — slammed into Earth’s atmosphere with an astonishing 240 exa-electron volts of energy.
A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible.
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) that may display possible aurorae, like the familiar Northern Lights on our world. This is an unexpected mystery because the brown dwarf, known as W1935, is an isolated object in space, with no nearby star to create an aurora.
Imagine a giant sphere, buried 700 feet underground, capable of catching the nearly invisible footprints of the cosmos’ most elusive particles: neutrinos, also called ghost particles. That sphere already exists and just "woke up" in China. His name is JUNO, and he promises to open a new window into the deepest mysteries of the universe.
We’ve known that this expansion is a fact of our cosmos for a while now (we also know that expansion is speeding up, but that’s another story). But we still don’t know exactly how fast this expansion is happening—we don’t know what the Hubble constant is. And it’s not for lack of trying, either.
Finding a Dyson Sphere among the millions of stars observed by projects like the Gaia satellite, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is a daunting task. However, two recent studies have taken on this challenge and identified several promising candidates.
In 1951, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that a strong enough electric field could rip pairs of matter and antimatter out of the vacuum itself, a process now known as the Schwinger effect.
Physicists say light enters a “dark quantum state” where it exists but can’t be seen.
The dwarf planet Ceres looks cold and dead, but a billion or so years after its formation, it may have had a warm interior that made it habitable.
Finding a Dyson Sphere among the millions of stars observed by projects like the Gaia satellite, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is a daunting task. However, two recent studies have taken on this challenge and identified several promising candidates.
We've only ever seen evidence of this process on Earth before, not the Moon.
But where did it come from, and what does it reveal about the Universe’s youth? According to a study from the University of Sydney, this is the most distant fast radio burst ever traced. Could it be a messenger from the cosmic dawn? Or one of many signals still hidden in the void?
After years of careful mapping, a new analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant constellations.
In a U.S. government laboratory on Long Island, scientists have forged matter out of pure light using a sophisticated particle accelerator, while also demonstrating an elusive phenomenon for the first time ever on Earth.
The JWST has allowed astronomers to peer back further into the past than any other infrared or optical telescope, seeing infrared light that was emitted by distant galaxies just 300 million years after the Big Bang.
For the first time, scientists have identified all five of the nucleobases—adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil—that form the blueprint of life in meteorites. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, strengthens the idea that some of life’s fundamental building blocks may have arrived on Earth via space rocks.