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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the universe’s earliest galaxies. If confirmed, their existence could reshape our understanding of how galaxies first formed. (Artist’s concept). Credit: SciTechDaily.com Drawing on observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified 300 unusual candidates for early …

A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor Neanderthal, a new study finds. The skull was reportedly discovered attached to the wall of Petralona Cave in northern Greece in 1960. Researchers have since argued about its position on the human family tree and had trouble figuring out its …

Scientists have been left baffled after a mysterious ‘alien helmet’ was spotted on the surface of Mars. The object was spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover through its Mastcam-Z. A pointed peak with a pitted, nodular texture would make people think of armor worn here on Earth in a bygone era. But does this prove that Martians are really living on …

US Military’s Mysterious Spaceplane May Have Limited Horizon  Bloomberg.com Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center  Spaceflight Now US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch  spaceforce.mil Watch SpaceX launch US Space Force’s classified X-37B space plane today  Space SpaceX readies for 8th flight of U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle  Spectrum News 13 …

A beaming patch of turquoise amidst the Southern Ocean’s blue-grey waters that’s baffled scientists ever since it was first spotted in satellite images in the early 2000s may have finally been deciphered by oceanographers. Mapping concentrations of phytoplankton and biogeochemical compounds has revealed a curious combination of microorganisms that challenges assumptions about the way the frigid waters of the world’s …

Circle Strafe NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet’s known satellites to 29. In early February, the space observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) caught the minuscule and still-unnamed object orbiting the gas giant at a distance of 35,000 miles. “It’s a small moon but a significant discovery, which is something …

An object that came from outside our solar system is hurtling towards the sun at roughly 61km (38 miles) a second. First detected in July, this visitor from outer space – known as 3I/Atlas – is only the third known interstellar object to have been observed, after ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Excitement has been growing since the …

A galaxy billions of light-years across space-time has puzzled scientists since its discovery more than 50 years ago. PKS 1424+240 is a blazar, with a hugely active black hole in its center blasting powerful jets of plasma out into intergalactic space. To qualify as a blazar, a galaxy has to be oriented in a very specific way – with one of …

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While …

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While …