Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A mummified body discovered near the site of a former royal mausoleum in Iran may be the remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the father of the country’s last shah. The recent find of the gauze-wrapped body — and the speculation it triggered — […]
Let’s stop pretending, shall we? Because really, we’re not fooling anyone. Uranus is funny. It was funny when you were twelve, and it’s funny now. It was certainly funny when I was a boy and went to a space-themed summer camp where all the bunks were named after planets and Uranus happened to be where […]
(BERLIN) — The European Space Agency is releasing the most detailed star chart yet for the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. The data released Wednesday include high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars collected by the space agency’s Gaia probe, which was launched in 2013. It follows the release two years ago of a smaller […]
There may be nearly twice as many gorillas in the world than previously thought, a new study reveals. Published in the journal Science Advances, the decade-long survey determined that there may be 361,900 gorillas in western equatorial Africa, higher than the earlier estimates of 150,000 to 250,000, the Guardian reports. However, gorillas remain critically endangered […]
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered what could be the site of the largest known instance of child sacrifice in the Americas, and perhaps even the world. The remains of more than 140 children and 200 young llamas were found under residential compounds outside the city of Trujillo, in Peru’s northwest, National Geographic reports. The site […]
People looking toward the stars on Monday night will have a chance to see a nearly full moon alongside Jupiter, one of the brightest planets in the solar system. There was a full moon on Sunday night. While it’s now technically a waning gibbous, the moon will still look full to the Earthly eye on […]
Artist’s concept of the space plane being designed by Northrop Grumman, with help from Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, for DARPA’s XS-1 program. The XS-1 is a space plane under development by the U.S. military’s high-tech agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The major goal of the project is to reuse the spacecraft […]
China is building the foundations of what will become the largest artificial rain experiment in history, in an attempt to induce extra rainfall over the Tibetan Plateau. The project will see tens of thousands of fuel-burning chambers installed across the Tibetan mountains, with a view to boosting rainfall in the region by up to 10 […]
Beneath Marcio Cabral’s entry, the British Natural History Museum detailed the arduous process the photographer said he went through to snap the award-winning picture. He’d spent three years returning to the plains of Brazil, he told Wildlife Photographer of the Year judges, staking out giant termite mounds dotted with bioluminescent click beetle larvae — and […]
It was August 13, 1945, and the ‘demon core’ was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen. A week earlier, ‘Little Boy’ had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by ‘Fat Man’ in Nagasaki. These were the first and only nuclear […]