1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (565+ words) Most comets and asteroids that pass through the Solar System are permanent residents. The Sun’s gravity keeps them on closed orbits, even when those orbits take thousands of years to complete. An interstellar object is different. It arrives on a…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (771+ words) The Milky Way is not the center of the universe. No observation has placed Earth or our galaxy in a privileged position, and the large-scale universe looks broadly the same in every direction. Avi Loeb recently explored a stranger possibility:…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago   (710+ words) The latest U.S. UAP release is different from the packages that came before it. The fifth tranche, published on August 7, is dominated by written testimony rather than a dramatic new video. That makes the material harder to share and more demanding…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (745+ words) Archaeologists do not always find a monument in the form people imagine. A stone circle may survive as a scatter of sockets. A burial mound may be flattened into a field. A ditch can become a faint change in soil…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (687+ words) The outline of a Neolithic monument can disappear long before the site stops carrying information. At Sizewell on the Suffolk coast, archaeologists found a large rectangular enclosure whose ditches had faded into the soil. They used excavation and a technique…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (631+ words) Avi Loeb’s newest UAP essay begins with a question that is easier to state than to answer: are some objects in the sky secret human projects, or do they represent technology no government on Earth built? Loeb says this question…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (818+ words) Sending a spacecraft between stars is difficult for a reason that is easy to underestimate: the spacecraft has to leave one planetary system and arrive at another with enough speed, fuel, and shielding to do useful work. Every kilogram carried…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (758+ words) Look up on a clear night and the sky between the stars is mostly black. That seems obvious until you ask a deceptively simple question: if the universe contains an enormous number of stars, why is every direction not filled…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (824+ words) The excavation covers roughly 1,500 square metres. Olive trees that had grown across the area were carefully relocated, allowing the team to work across a broad strip of ground rather than opening a few small trenches. Archaeologists are moving horizontally through…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (741+ words) The Kuiper Belt is a broad, cold region beyond Neptune where millions of icy bodies orbit the Sun. Pluto is the best-known member, but it is only one of many worlds in a population that preserves material left over from…...