It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave accurate digits of the world’s most famous irrational number. And even though for a century, the formulas were viewed as pinnacle of…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third object that we know of that has been observed to pass through our solar system from interstellar space; hence, it is a rare and scientifically significant finding.Simply put, the comet didn’t form with the rest of the solar system, but it is an icy one that came from a…
The oldest archaeological record of incest has been found recently during an excavation at the cave site of Grotta della Monaca in Calabria, Italy. The findings of this excavation were revealed in a genetic study published in the journal Communications Biology.The team of researchers found this clue of incest in the remains of a teenage…
In the year 2026, there will be two incredible solar eclipses that will be visible in the sky. These eclipses will provide astronomers with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to witness the Moon aligning with the Sun. There will be two types of eclipses: one will be an annular eclipse, which will result in the formation of a…
In the north of Italy, high up on a rocky cliff face, a casual observation has revealed one of the greatest discoveries of dinosaur tracks on the European continent. It all began when a wildlife photographer went up into the mountains looking for images of deer and vultures. Instead, he discovered the wakes of life…
The much talked about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to our planet today (Friday), December 19. This marks an important moment for astronomers who have been tracking one of the most unusual objects ever observed near Earth since July. The comet was discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope network…
An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 (Photo-AP) Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect…
In 2026, many people will hear the same strange phrase repeated again and again. The Sun will briefly disappear. It sounds dramatic, almost alarming, but the reason is far simpler and far more familiar to astronomers. The Sun itself is not changing or switching off. What will happen is a precise alignment between the Earth,…
Michaela Benthaus, a German aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency in Germany, is soon to make history as the first wheelchair-bound individual to travel to space. Benthaus has used a wheelchair since a mountain biking accident in 2018. The engineer will fly with five other individuals aboard Blue Origin’s next New Shepard space mission….
Today, there are a lot more satellites in space than before, mostly due to the fact that companies are launching huge groups of satellites called mega constellations. The satellites provide services such as internet, navigation, and weather forecasting, but at the same time, they are the source of major problems.A recent arXiv preprint study tells…
After one year of ups and downs, politics, and anticipation, Jared Isaacman, entrepreneur and private astronaut, has been confirmed as the 15th NASA administrator. The Senate approved him by a vote of 67-30 on December 17, 2025, demonstrating collective admiration for the leadership skills he possesses, although concerns were raised about his close connection with…
To study comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object to be found passing through our solar system, NASA is going all out with a solar system wide observation campaign that is unheard of in nature. The comet that was first detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in…
La Niña came back to the equatorial Pacific after a short break when the El Niño Southern Oscillation neutral phase was detected in the middle of the year. The event is going to last from September 2025 to December and is considered a relatively weak one, so the question arises about the extent of its…
For years, asteroids have presented a picture of being very remote, lifeless bodies that float in space silently by themselves. However, with recent research, there is hope that certain asteroids may hold tremendous value for the world of economics and science. It has recently been suggested that smaller, carbon-rich asteroids could provide water, organic materials,…
The idea sounds dramatic, almost clickbait-level dramatic. Is Mars controlling Earth’s climate? It feels wrong on instinct. Climate change is something we argue about in terms of cars, coal, forests, and oceans, not dusty planets hanging millions of kilometres away. And yet, Earth is not floating alone in space. It is part of a system…
Astronomers eagerly wait for their best chance to see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS approaching Earth on 19 December. Found on 1 July by NASA-funded ATLAS Telescopes in Chile, the icy comet was the third confirmed interstellar object that entered the solar system after 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Comet 3I/ATLAS will certainly be no…
The Winter Solstice is more than a date in the calendar. For over four millennia, this event marked an important turning point in the passage of nature, when winter officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere. For one day each year, it marked the moment when the power of light is weakest and when night is…
Evidence suggests Ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom began almost a century later/ Image: Pexels For more than a century, historians have worked with a broadly agreed timeline for Ancient Egypt, anchoring its major eras to king lists, inscriptions and archaeological layers. One of the most important of those turning points is the start of the New…
Scientists have identified an unusually thick rock layer deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle, revealing a geological feature unlike anything previously documented. The structure, measuring about 20 kilometres in thickness, lies below the oceanic crust and within the tectonic plate beneath Bermuda. The discovery, reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is based on seismic analysis…
On December 16 in the early hours of the day, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V will carry 27 of Amazon’s Leo satellites into orbit in a bid to realise Amazon’s ambitious constellation initiative, which will see it establish a global satellite internet network. The launch will take place at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space…
