NASA’s Three-Telescope View Reveals Where the Tarantula Nebula’s Energy Goes
The Tarantula Nebula is one of the busiest stellar nurseries in our galactic neighbourhood. Thousands of young stars are packed into a web of gas and dust in the Large…
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Ivan Petricevic
Ivan Petricevic is an investigative journalist and researcher with more than a decade of experience covering ancient history, UAP phenomena, space, and science. He writes about space, science, and history for Večernji list and has appeared as an expert on Discovery Channel and History Channel. He founded Curiosmos, where he reports from primary sources, archaeological research, and field investigations.
A Roman Cave Sanctuary in Spain Holds 120 Inscriptions—and Five Name an Unknown Goddess
Deep inside a cave near Valencia, archaeologists have documented at least 120 Latin inscriptions from the Roman period. Five of them refer to a previously unknown goddess addressed as Domina—“the…
How Do Scientists Measure Distance in Space?
How do scientists measure distance in space? They use a chain of methods rather than one universal measuring tape. Radar can reach planets. Parallax works for nearby stars. Farther out,…
Boyajian’s Star May Have a Giant Companion Stirring Up Its Comets
Boyajian’s Star may have a large companion orbiting it, according to a new study of the system’s motion. The best estimate puts the object at about 9.4 times the mass…
What a Baseball Pitch Can Teach Us About UAP
Avi Loeb’s baseball-pitch analogy shows why motion, distance and the observing medium matter when scientists interpret UAP reports.
How Does Dendrochronology Date Ancient Buildings?
How does dendrochronology date ancient buildings? By reading the growth history recorded inside wood. In regions where trees respond to changing seasons, each year leaves a pattern of wide and…
Scientists Finally See Tiny Vortices on the Sun
The Sun’s surface is not a smooth, glowing shell. It is a restless layer of boiling plasma, threaded by magnetic fields and covered in motions that are far too small…
China Has Postponed Its Chang’e-7 Mission to the Moon’s South Pole
China says its Chang’e-7 lunar south-pole mission will not launch in the planned 2026 window. Here is what the mission is designed to investigate.
A Star Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole Could Reveal How It Spins
Astronomers have found a faint star taking an extraordinary route around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. The star, named S301, reaches about 25,000 kilometres per…
What Are Lagrange Points—and Why Do Space Telescopes Use Them?
What are Lagrange points? They are five regions in a two-body system where the gravity of the larger bodies and the motion of a smaller object combine in a useful…
A Young Planet 23 Times Heavier Than Earth Is Challenging How Rocky Worlds Form
Astronomers have confirmed an unusually heavy planet around a young star. GJ 523b is about 23.5 times as massive as Earth, yet its radius is only 2.55 times larger. That…
An Artemis-Tested Vest Could Protect Astronauts During Severe Solar Storms
Measurements from NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I mission show how a targeted radiation vest could reduce the dose astronauts receive during major solar particle events.
NASA Maps Places Where Human-Related Microbes Could Survive on the Moon
Simulations suggest that some bacteria and fungi carried by astronauts could remain alive for at least a day in shaded pockets near the lunar south pole.
Why Does the Sun Shine? The Nuclear Fusion Inside Our Star
The Sun shines because nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Under immense pressure and a temperature of about 15 million degrees Celsius, hydrogen nuclei join to form helium.…
More Than 200 Roman Coins Found Beside Plovdiv’s Ancient Eastern Gate
Rescue excavations beside the Eastern Gate of Philippopolis have uncovered a large coin cache, an ancient building and burials that add new detail to Roman Plovdiv.
Hubble Finds the Milky Way’s Earliest Major Merger in Ancient Star Clusters
Hubble observations of 39 globular clusters reveal evidence that the young Milky Way absorbed a dwarf galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago.
We May Be Missing Most Interstellar Objects. Here’s Why
Interstellar visitors are hard to find and even harder to classify. Survivorship bias may shape what we think we know about objects like ‘Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS.
Pollen in a Roman Shipwreck’s Tar Reveals How Its Hull Was Repaired Across the Adriatic
A 2,200-year-old wreck off Croatia preserved more than timber and amphorae. Its sticky hull coatings trapped pollen that now gives archaeologists a record of where the ship was built and repaired.
Why Does Earth Have Seasons? It Is Not Because We Move Closer to the Sun
Earth has seasons because its axis is tilted by about 23.4 degrees. As the planet travels around the Sun, one hemisphere leans toward the Sun while the other leans away.…
Alien Disclosure in 2027? What the Public Record Actually Shows
Is alien disclosure in 2027 a real timetable? We trace the claim, compare it with UAP records and explain what evidence would actually confirm non-human intelligence.
Why Does Jupiter Have a Great Red Spot?
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm system wider than Earth, turning inside the planet’s cloud tops for centuries of recorded observation. It is not a solid mark on the…
Could Gamma Rays Reveal the Universe’s Fossil Neutrinos?
A new study proposes using gamma-ray sources to search for the universe’s fossil neutrinos, a relic signal left from the first seconds after the Big Bang.
Why Is Mars Red? The Rust in Its Dust Has a Complicated Story
Mars looks red because its surface dust contains oxidised iron. The same broad chemical idea explains rust on Earth: iron reacts with oxygen or other oxidising agents and forms minerals…
Could a Navy Laser Countermeasure Explain Some Tic-Tac UAP Reports?
Avi Loeb has proposed a laser-plasma hypothesis for some Tic-Tac UAP reports. The physics is real, but the evidence does not solve the 2004 Nimitz case.