NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Separating Planet Light From Star Light
NASA’s Pandora satellite has started science observations of at least 20 exoplanets, measuring their host stars so Webb’s atmospheric results can be read more reliably.
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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 6,000-Year-Old Czech Enclosure Had Twelve Entrances Aligned With the Sky
Twelve entrances opened onto the horizon at Chleby. The excavators link their directions to the Sun and Moon, raising questions about how people gathered there.
Karahantepe’s 11,000-Year-Old Figure Shows a Person Seated on a Leopard
A person sits on a leopard in a sculpture found inside a small stone building. What did this unusual pairing mean to the people of Karahantepe?
Why Did Romans Bury Lightning? A New Inscription at Hadrian’s Villa Offers a Clue
A marble inscription found in its original position at Hadrian’s Villa refers to a lightning strike attributed to Summanus—and the Roman ritual of making the place sacred.
Fast Radio Bursts Are Starting to Map the Universe’s Missing Gas
A new Nature Astronomy study uses 114 fast radio bursts to trace cosmic gas and test how stellar and black-hole feedback reshapes matter around galaxies.
Meteorite Grains Preserve Evidence of a Magnetic Field in the Infant Solar System
Tiny minerals inside one of the most pristine meteorites ever found still carry a record of magnetism from the solar system’s first 200,000 years.
Why Do Galaxies Collide If the Universe Is Expanding?
The universe is expanding, yet galaxies still merge. The answer lies in gravity, local motion, and the difference between cosmic expansion and a galaxy’s neighbourhood.
When Gravity Bends Light: How Gravitational Lensing Reveals the Distant Universe
Gravity can bend and magnify light from a distant galaxy. Here is how gravitational lensing works, what Einstein rings are, and what astronomers learn from them.
Charnia Fossil from Norway: What Did 3D Preservation Reveal?
A Charnia fossil from Norway preserves rare ridges along its branches. Researchers trace how an underwater sediment flow may have carried and buried it.
ESO’s New Instrument Can Read the Light From 1,000 Stars and Galaxies at Once
MOONS has made its first observations at the Very Large Telescope. Its thousand optical fibres could help reveal the history hidden in stars and galaxies.
Ancient Grape Seeds Trace a 3,000-Year Lineage Still Growing in Iberian Vineyards
DNA from ancient grape seeds connects Iberian vineyards to eastern Mediterranean plants—and reveals how growers preserved lineages across millennia.
NASA and IBM Give Scientists a New Way to Search the Moon’s Vast Image Archive
A new lunar model can help map craters and promising conditions for polar ice. Its technical documentation reveals what those predictions mean—and how scientists can test them.
How Did Ancient Egyptians Hollow Out Stone Vessels?
A finished stone vessel hides the work that made it. Unfinished objects, drill cores, a tomb painting and traces of abrasive bring the ancient workshop back into view.
NASA Wants Your Help Reading the Light From Distant Galaxies
Artifact InSPECtor invites volunteers to examine Euclid observations and improve the tools that will help astronomers read distant galaxies. Here is what the unusual streaks and blobs mean.
A Bronze Age Change of Diet Is Still Written in Ancient Teeth and Bones
Isotopes reveal millet consumption in Poland around 1590 BCE—and show how some people adopted the new crop during their own lifetimes.
Could an Ancient Temple Have a Voice? Listening to Chavín’s Stone Passages
Playable shell horns and sound-filtering stone passages offer a way to investigate what visitors could have heard at Chavín de Huántar.
ESA Can Now Predict Where Meteorite Fragments Will Fall Before an Asteroid Enters the Atmosphere
A new ESA model can estimate where fragments from a small incoming asteroid may land before the object reaches the atmosphere. The system was built for the short-warning events that astronomers call imminent impactors.
What Changed in Stone-Toolmaking in China’s Lower Yangtze 70,000–100,000 Years Ago?
A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation.
Did the Young Sun Swallow a Super-Earth? Its Interior May Still Hold the Clue
Could the young Sun have swallowed a super-Earth? A new solar model finds a possible interior fingerprint, but the event has not been observed.
The Shackled Dead of Phaleron Were Not Foreign Invaders, New Study Finds
A chemical record preserved in their teeth suggests that most of the men in Phaleron’s shackled mass graves grew up in Attica. The finding shifts the debate from foreign invaders to violence within the community itself.
Neptune’s Tiny Moons May Be Wreckage Left by Triton’s Capture
The small moons inside Neptune’s rings may be the surviving debris of a much larger moon system destroyed when Triton was captured billions of years ago.
Early-Universe Plasma May Have Kept Dark Photons From Heating the Cosmos
Dark photons are one proposed explanation for dark matter. A new calculation suggests that the early universe’s plasma may have stopped them from depositing heat as efficiently as earlier models predicted.
A Microquasar May Be Powering the Milky Way’s Giant Cygnus Bubble
The enormous Cygnus Bubble is usually linked to a busy star-forming region. A new study argues that the microquasar Cygnus X-3 may be the more natural source of its highest-energy gamma rays.
What Is the Cosmic Microwave Background? The Universe’s Ancient Afterglow Explained
The cosmic microwave background is the oldest light we can observe. Here is where it came from, what its tiny patterns reveal, and why it still matters.