New evidence for a massive, high-altitude explosion caused by a comet impacting the Earth’s atmosphere over North America 12,900 years ago—referred to as the Younger Dryas impact—has been unveiled, following an analysis of fractured quartz crystals discovered at sites along the U.S. east coast of that appear to have been affected by a meteor impact. Shortly after theread more
Yet another key ingredient in the recipe for biological life has been found on Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, a chemical compound that, in addition to being a potential energy source for primitive organisms, could also act as a basis for the formation of organic molecules that are essential for the formationread more
The former Chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Department, Avi Loeb, has provided an update on the material collected from the first known interstellar meteorite to strike the Earth, Interstellar meteor (IM1); not only does this early analysis bolster the idea that IM1 is from beyond our solar system, but Loebread more
A key component of space travel in science fiction has taken a major step to becoming reality with an experiment that has successfully induced suspended hibernation in lab rodents. Instead of using potentially dangerous methods such as chemically-induced sleep or freezing the subjects, the technique involved uses ultrasound to lullread more