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NASA’s planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Another first for the Transiting…
An ordinary-looking star system, barely visible in the night sky, appears to have a very bright future in store – and if astronomers’ predictions are right, some of us might…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Some experts believe the plane may have been…
Elvis, often referred to as “the King of Rock and Roll,” died from a cardiac arrest at his home in Memphis at just 42 years old. His passing, which brought…
Scientists may have solved one of the great Leonardo da Vinci painting mysteries – why the glass orb in the Salvator Mundi painting (dated to around 1500 CE) shows no…
Alien life conspiracy theorist Scott Waring took to his etdatabase.com blog to speculate about the bizarre claim about Comet Halley, also known as 1P/Halley. He said: “Guys, I hate to…
Our magnificent gravitational wave astronomers have done it again, adding to the detection collection a new collision between two neutron stars. On 25 April 2019, two neutron stars around 520…
A mysterious repeating radio signal from space revealed last year is now the fifth fast radio burst to be tracked back to its source galaxy. It’s a location unlike any…
The catastrophic bushfires raging across much of Australia have not only taken a huge human and economic toll, but also delivered heavy blows to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Already, scientists…
To protect its hosts, Airbnb is now using an AI-powered tool to scan the internet for clues that a guest might not be a reliable customer. According to patent documents…
The climate changes we humans have inflicted on the planet are now so deeply embedded, they are showing up in our daily weather. Researchers from Switzerland and Norway now claim…
There’s nothing quite like staring into a celestial abyss to put your life in perspective. Perhaps that’s what we all need in 2020. On the brink of a new year,…
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the fundamentals of particle physics. But now scientists…
US Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar has revealed how she will reveal what the US government knows about UFOs if elected. The Democratic Minnesota Senator confirmed the promise to look into…
In recent years, anthropologists around the world have discovered new human ancestors, figured out what happened to the Neanderthals, and pushed back the age of the earliest member of our…
Public attention on the disastrous bushfire crisis in Australia will rightly continue for weeks to come. But as we direct resources to coping and recovery, we should not forget other…
Despite the similarities our world has with Venus, there is still much don’t know about Earth’s “sister planet” and how it came to be. Thanks to its super-dense and hazy…
Australia’s raging bushfires are so bad that satellites thousands of miles above Earth can easily spot their flames and smoke from space. The fires likely started naturally, though experts think…
You’ve heard of hot Jupiters. You’ve heard of mini-Neptunes. You’ve heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep – planetary scientists think there might be a type…
You’ve heard of hot Jupiters. You’ve heard of mini-Neptunes. You’ve heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep – planetary scientists think there might be a type…
Homo sapiens have been treading this planet for around 350,000 years now. With our primate hands and our primate brains, we have expanded our curiosity beyond Earth’s blue skies, into…
Elvis would have reached the milestone of 85 on Wednesday, but instead passed away on August 16, 1977, following a cardiac arrest in his bathroom. The My Way singer had…
Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don’t always follow the rules. Scientists have…
World War 3 could erupt in the Middle East in the aftermath of the United States assassination of Iran’s revered General Qassem Soleimani. On Friday, January 3, a US airstrike…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. At 17:19 UTC on the night of its…
In the video University Challenge presenter Jeremy Paxman makes a quick costume change as he asks a question in a pantomime outfit. The clip was tweeted by BBC journalist Adrian…
In these troubling times we need all the good news we can get, and this week we finally got some: the largest floating wind turbine to date just went online…
If we discovered evidence of alien life, would we even realise it? Life on other planets could be so different from what we’re used to that we might not recognise…
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine secretly proposed using US rockets to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon, Japanese newspaper The Mainichi reports, citing “multiple sources” familiar with the talks. According to…
The grand, sprawling palace built by the Roman Emperor Nero nearly 2,000 years ago has been keeping a secret. While working on restorations in 2019, archaeologists found a secret chamber…
Under the cover of night, two large leopard slugs begin to court, circling each other, before climbing single-file up a tree or onto a rock. They lower themselves on a…
Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that’s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more…
Something strange has been happening in eastern Colorado at night. Since the week of Christmas, giant drones measuring up to 6 feet (1.8 metres) across have been spotted in the…
What will happen in the 2020s? If history is any guide (and there’s good reason to think it is), the outlook isn’t great. Here are some big-picture predictions: stagnant real…
Jeane Dixon was one of the best-known US self-proclaimed psychics and astrologers of the 20th century, due to her outrageous newspaper columns that encapsulated the interest of readers. Ms Dixon…
When you’re preparing for any journey it helps to know how long it’ll take, and even more so when we’re talking about the vast distances of space. Now a couple…
The “ghost” appears to wail loudly from the treetop in the footage with social media users calling it the scariest thing they’ve ever seen. A ghostly figure of a woman…
Early risers on New Year’s Day were treated to a shocking sight when they noticed a mysterious object shooting through the sky. Along Treasure Coast beach in Florida, what looked…
Self-styled alien expert Scott Waring took to his etdatabase.com blog to speculate about the bizarre find. He said: “I found what I believe to be a UFO passing below the…
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with climate news these days. Every week there’s another story on deforestation, coral bleaching, heat records being smashed… and then smashed again a few months…
A swath of the Pacific Ocean larger than New South Wales is heating up, and fast. About 800 kilometres (497 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, near the Chatham…
Yesterday, the Pope found himself at the centre of controversy as footage emerged of him greeting pilgrims at the Vatican. The 83-year-old lost his cool when an unknown woman grabbed…
In pet-loving nations such as Australia, nobody likes the idea of dogs churning out litters in squalid conditions or sitting homeless in a shelter. Responsible dog owners are therefore strongly…
Sometimes you just have to stand back in awe at the beauty of the Universe – and that’s absolutely the case with this image from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
For three decades, paleontologists the world over have been split over a provocative finding: did a dwarf species of Tyrannosaurus rex really once exist? In 1988, paleontologist Robert Bakker and…