3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (250+ words) When their fishing trip went wrong, Easton Barrett had the only mobile phone and no cell service. He recorded a brief farewell, planning to put his phone in a cooler in hopes someone would find it. A mission control center…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (537+ words) New observations regarding the composition of distant galaxies reveal insights into the earliest phases of the universe that confirm decades of scientific understanding of the elements and particles produced by the Big Bang, according to a new study. Astronomers did…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (229+ words) Mirage News Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The deep featured picture from…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (755+ words) What happened in the first moments of the Universe - before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are trying to answer this question by recreating…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (569+ words) Mirage News Niobium-94, an isotope of niobium with 41 protons and 53 neutrons, is a critical crossroads in the complex nuclear processes that forge heavy elements under the intense pressures and temperatures of dying stars. Writing in Physical Review Letters, the n_TOF Collaboration…...