Some researchers suggest the Giza pyramids were built in alignment with the stars. But that idea has been met with criticism. Wikimedia Commons Do the Egyptian pyramids line up with the stars? This idea gets tossed around so often that many...
Dima Zel/Shutterstock With just how exciting 2022 was when it came to space news — from the reveal of the first images taken the James Webb Space Telescope to NASA crashing the DART spacecraft into an asteroid — it may seem like 2023 will be...
Comet Leonard, captured here at its peak, has a multitude of fine tail streamers emanating from its nucleus. Brighter comets can be among the most spectacular objects in the sky to observe and photograph. Damian Peach Over the last few years,...
A composite of flame images from nine different tests of NASA’s Flame Design experiment, conducted in June and July 2019 on the International Space Station. NASA Given that it’s one of humanity’s oldest tools, you might assume we know all there...
In order to help build suitable and affordable bases on the Moon and beyond, scientists are exploring using fungus to grow the necessary building blocks on site. ESA/P. Carril Growing structures made of mushrooms on the Moon might seem like something...
Alan Jamieson We know more about the Moon than the deep sea. This idea has been repeated for decades by scientists and science communicators, including Sir David Attenborough in the 2001 documentary series The Blue Planet. More recently, in Blue Planet II (2017)...
Asteroid 2023 BU’s path in red, with green showing the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. NASA/JPL-Caltech There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our solar system, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are...
A visually entrapping 20-million-year-old skull is providing new data on the evolution of brains in primates. Imagine looking through a wormhole into the past and seeing your ancient origins up close, well, if you did so, you might be looking at this incredible 20-million-year old skull...
Historians down the ages have examined the ebb and flow of populations in ancient societies. But most of these examinations have tended to focus on male dominated events – the wars, the politics, and the money. But there is another side...
Few ancient Egyptian royals are capable of garnering as much attention, generating frenzy, and stoking controversy globally as the legendary beauty Queen Nefertiti can. Despite having been a powerful woman who is believed to have co-ruled with her husband, Akhenaten, before...
