Extreme elements push the boundaries of the periodic table0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 10, 2019
For superheavy atoms, chemistry gets weird
For superheavy atoms, chemistry gets weird
The rock-eating, sulfur-breathing microbes have scientists wondering what other strange creatures dwell deep below Earth’s surface.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission’s Vikram lander was descending toward the moon when it suddenly went off trajectory just 1.3 miles above the lunar surface.
There are plenty of scenarios in which aliens could exist but we haven’t heard from them, the study authors wrote. Aliens may have even visited Earth, they say, just not recently enough for us to have noticed.
While observing a large supernova in the ‘Fireworks’ galaxy, researchers accidentally captured imagery of a brief, bright spot in the same galaxy that didn’t originate from the supernova.
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon launch, a group of local computer restoration experts has succeeded in getting a half-century-old Apollo Guidance Computer into working order. They even used it to “land on the moon.”
The Earth sits in a cosmic shooting gallery, constantly being bombarded by bits of space debris. Most of the time, the objects hitting the atmosphere are small, say the size of a grain of sand or even a small rock. They burn up in the atmosphere, leaving a streak as they go — a shooting star on which you might make a wish.
Conspiracy theorists claim the footage shows an “alien mothership”
Pulsars are incredible heavenly bodies.