3 new moons discovered orbiting Uranus, Neptune

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Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful land-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, and announced Friday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE’S OLDEST BLACK HOLE, DEFYING THE MYSTERIES … Read more

Ancient DNA analysis shows how Scandinavia’s first farmers wiped out hunter-gatherer population

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A new study is shedding light on the violent history of Scandinavia which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just a thousand years.  A team of international researchers analyzed DNA samples from approximately 100 human remains found in southern Scandinavia through a process called shotgun sequencing. These remains span approximately 7,300 years, … Read more

Scientists suggest our universe is merging with ‘baby universes’ as possible theory of expansion

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Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.  That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is not as well understood. Scientists believe that an elusive substance called “dark energy” is responsible for driving the expansion. But the very … Read more

NASA goes old school with rocket sending astronauts to the Moon

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NASA is bringing back its historic worm logo to decorate the agency’s first crew-bearing rocket being sent to the moon in decades. NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems began painting the bright red logo on the Space Launch System’s two solid rocket boosters last month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency’s Artemis II mission, the agency … Read more

Alexander the Great’s father located in Greek tomb after remains identified using X-ray analysis: study

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Alexander the Great’s father’s remains have been identified in a Greek tomb using X-ray analysis, a new study says.  The new international — yet controversial study — states that archaeologists previously had the wrong tomb identified in Vergina, Greece, as containing Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, according to Live Science.  The site contains three … Read more