Science
New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon’s oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than … Read More
An Anglo-Saxon girl who died 1,500 years ago in England was buried with an even older artifact that has archaeologists scratching their heads: An enamel Roman-era goblet that was once … Read More
There are a lot of areas of physics that appear counterintuitive, with some of the most famous examples including wave-particle duality and time dilation. But you may feel like you … Read More
This feature is part of a series called Turning Points, in which writers explore what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. You can read more … Read More
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is the universe expanding … Read More
I still remember the first time I learned about Saccorhytus. I was scrolling through a gallery of images related to new scientific papers when I saw an illustration of something … Read More
In May 2024, the skies above Japan’s Honshu and Hokkaido islands were set alight by an extraordinary auroral display, unlike anything scientists had observed before. This event, driven by a … Read More
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have corroborated data from its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, to determine something is missing from our recipe of the cosmos. … Read More
Earlier this year, JWST researchers reported on measurements built on last year’s confirmation based on Webb data that Hubble’s measurements of the expansion rate were accurate, at least for the … Read More
In the 1930s, a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître transformed our understanding of the Universe when he envisioned its birth as a cosmic explosion. According to Lemaître, the … Read More
