The spread of COVID-19 in mainland China has become “impossible” to track, according to the country’s top health authority, with case numbers rising precipitously since the end of October, prompting local health authorities to abandon their recording of asymptomatic cases as part of their daily counts. This new wave ofread more
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons spacecraft have unveiled the presence of a mysterious glow that permeates the solar system. This unexplained glow was discovered by the SKYSURF survey, an effort to catalogue the various sources of light within the solar system that can interfere withread more
There is the possibility that life on Earth may not have originated here, but rather travelled to our planet on meteorites after first coming into being on the surface of Mars, according to a new study of Martian meteorites that suggests that the now-arid surface of the Red Planet wasread more
“Gravity waves may not be the communication mode of choice for intelligent beings, but they will eventually give us an entirely new way to study the cosmos…” –Seth Shostak, Astronomer A team of scientists has proposed using existing gravitational wave observatories as a method of detecting nearby extraterrestrial craft thatread more