The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
The familiar comparison runs like this: there are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth, a fact wheeled out in planetariums and pop-science segments as the ...
Miranda Kerr handed jewelry to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2017, including a heart-shaped pink diamond that had been given to her by Malaysian financier Jho Low, after federal investigators ...
A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...
Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...
Quote of the day, from Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” It’s the kind of line that can sound like a fridge magnet if you meet it cold, the sort of thing ...
The Sun accounts for about 99.86 per cent of all the mass in the solar system. Put the other way around, every planet, moon, asteroid and comet combined comes to roughly 0.14 per cent of the total, ...
On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called Camp Evans, a small team of Signal Corps engineers pointed a modified wartime radar antenna at the horizon ...
Turn up to a Madrid restaurant at seven in the evening and the chairs will still be stacked on the tables. Come back at half past ten and the room is packed, kids under the tables, grandparents ...
KIC 8462852, or “Tabby’s Star” named after Tabetha Boyajian, the researcher at Louisiana State University (USA) who is leading its study, is a medium sized star, some 50% bigger than the Sun, and ...
Representative image of a blue gas giant (Neptune), not HD 189733b. Illustration by Zelch Csaba via Pexels. From a distance, the exoplanet HD 189733b looks like the most reassuring thing in the sky: a ...
Artist concept of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the ...