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A Harvard scientist has an interesting theory as to how our universe was formed: in a laboratory by higher “class” of lifeform. Avi Loeb, bestselling author and the former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, penned an op-ed in Scientific American this week positing that the universe could have been formed in a lab by an “advanced technological civilization.”…

A group of astronomers has discovered a ‘barrier’ in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. It is currently unclear how is works or why it even exists. An artist’s impression of the Milky Way’s center, using data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) Recent research published in Nature Communications describes the finding…

In the 1620s, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered the construction of a new warship to protect his citizens. The warship was named Vasa and its construction was hurried as the Swedes waged war in those years with the now-historic bi-confederation entity reigned by one monarch–the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After its creation, with several superlatives, the…

Michigan was digging into a field, for the purpose of drainage, when, about eight feet deep, they encountered a substance that looked like wood. As the Detroit Free Press reports, the farmers soon realized they were hitting not wood, but bone. Is it a ᴅιɴosᴀuʀ bone? They called the University of Michigan, who relayed the…

You don’t need to be an expert in science to understand that black holes often pull things in rather than spit them out. However, NASA has just discovered something quite weird around the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.   This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays…

  According to NASA, Juno passed Jupiter at a speed of around 129,000 mph (208,000 km/h), skimming 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) over Jupiter’s cloud tops. I need to quit gazing at the pictures; hold my coffee. Even so, is that real? The first solar-powered spacecraft dispatched to explore Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar…

The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing.This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalized by its companion, a much smaller, denser white dwarf. The dramatic moment you’re looking at unfolded just 650 light-years from Earth – practically…

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Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a massive scar. Around 200 million years older than any other site like it on the planet’s surface, the so-called Yarrabubba impact structure is located in Australia. Although the impact site is the oldest found to date, finding it was not…