HercuList Secrets

Dark matter from 12 billion years ago detected for the 1st time

Scientists have discovered dark matter around galaxies that existed about 12 billion years ago, the earliest detection yet of this mysterious substance that dominates the universe. The findings, achieved by a collaboration led by ...

Watch Mars and Uranus meet up in night-sky webcast tonight

Mars and Uranus are night-sky neighbors at the moment, and you can get good views of their unusual meetup online tonight (Aug. 1). The two planets are close enough in the sky right now to be seen together through binoculars or a low-power telescope.

Scientists create synthetic mouse embryos, a potential key to healing humans

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

Stem cell researchers in Israel have created synthetic mouse embryos without using a sperm or egg, then grown them in an artificial womb for eight days, a development that opens a window into a fascinating, potentially fraught realm of science that ...

WIRED

A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter

WIRED

Nothing is certain in life except death, taxes, and—a physicist might add—the values of the fundamental constants. These are quantities, such as the speed of light or the mass of the electron, which physicists have determined do not change over time ...

Hubble Space Telescope captures trippy 'mirror image' view of distant galaxy

A galaxy and its reflection appear to form a ring around a bright patch of light. Galaxy SGAS J143845+145407 is located in the northern constellation Boötes. Light from this distant galaxy ...

Big Bang Residue Reveals Most Distant Dark Matter Studied to Date

Scientists investigated the most distant dark matter halos ever studied by using gravitational lensing, a phenomena once predicted by Albert Einstein. Why it matters. What they found while observing these rings could affect a well-known model of ...

Once thought to be Loch Ness monster, ancient reptile's fossils now found in freshwater

Previously, scientists thought the plesiosaur only lived in saltwater environments, said Nick Longrich, a senior lecturer in the University of Bath's life sciences department. Now that the fossils have been discovered in a freshwater environment ...

Florida coast braces for NASA's Artemis I moon launch, expecting at least 100000 visitors

Artemis I will be an uncrewed mission. Its success will poise NASA to put astronauts on the moon's surface sometime after 2024. BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Sold-out hotels. Excitement that seems ...

Astronomers Measure Dark Matter From 'Earliest Moments of the Universe'

They're haloes from 12 billion years ago, and could lead to a new chapter of cosmology. Monisha Ravisetti headshot. Monisha Ravisetti.

Smithsonian

When Will the Next Supernova in Our Galaxy Occur?

Smithsonian

That's what the German astronomer Johannes Kepler saw in 1604; skywatchers elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East and Asia saw it too. We now know it wasn't really a new star but rather a supernova explosion—an enormous blast that happens when certain stars ...