6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (428+ words) The stone defeated a rock saw, a drill and a sledgehammer, and that resistance was the first real clue to what it was. In May 2015, a prospector named David Hole was sweeping a metal detector through open box-ironbark forest about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (386+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (279+ words) NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) caught the first faint dips in light as TIDYE-1b crossed its star every 8.83 days. To confirm the signal against the background noise of a volatile young star, Barber’s team used a specialized algorithm named…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (376+ words) Betelgeuse, a true celebrity in the constellation Orion, has been captivating stargazers forever (or at least since telescopes became a thing). Its enormous radius – about 700 times that of our Sun – makes it the nearest red supergiant to Earth, and at…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (474+ words) Scientists made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. That high-frequency burst came from colliding stellar-mass black holes. That signal matched what Einstein’s general relativity had predicted decades earlier. Since then, researchers have turned to a different technique to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (312+ words) The clip showed a bright streak crossing the sky right beside the darkened solar crescent. The timing coincided with the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, leading millions of viewers online to assume the camera had caught a rare…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (239+ words) Specifically, Roman’s mission will serve three major scientific goals: First technical feat: though Roman has a primary mirror the same diameter as Hubble’s (2.4 meters), it weighs four times less (186 kilograms). NASA mentions “major technological breakthroughs” behind this achievement, though has…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (321+ words) When circular radio structures first appeared in telescope data in 2019, scientists labeled them Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, and linked them to massive explosions in distant galaxies. However, researchers from Western Sydney University confirm this new object, designated G305.4-2.2, calls for…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (169+ words) Lead author Lukas Böhme and cosmologist Dominik Schwarz at Bielefeld University evaluated the solar system’s motion using distant radio galaxies. Rather than measuring direct velocity vectors, they mapped the spatial distribution of these celestial radio sources. As an observer moves…...