Category: 1. Edi-Choice

The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the eighth edition of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year, showcasing a curated collection of the 25 best Milky Way photos around the globe.

And – for the first time ever –…

A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. As reported by Mashable and confirmed through official findings from NASA’s Hubble…

Anyone who’s ever flinched during a dental cleaning knows how sensitive our teeth can be. That pain is actually useful – it helps us to detect pressure, temperature, and other sensations as we chew. But this sensitivity didn’t start in our…

Scientists with the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences say they have found a possible dwarf planet that they have dubbed an “extreme cousin” of Pluto.

They say that the possible dwarf planet is only detectable at certain…

One day around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man in what is now central Spain came across a large granite pebble whose pleasing contours and indentations snagged his eye.

Something in the shape of that quartz-rich stone – perhaps its odd…

On a late-summer day in 2001, at the University of Poitiers in west-central France, the palaeontologist Michel Brunet summoned his colleagues into a classroom to examine an unusual skull. Brunet had just returned from Chad, and brought with him…

SCIENTISTS in China claim they have developed a laser that can read millimetre-sized text from nearly a mile away.

That’s smaller than a grain of rice.

A rare and extraordinary event has been captured by researchers in Japan, revealing that lightning on Earth can produce gamma-ray bursts—high-energy emissions typically observed from cosmic phenomena like black holes or neutron star…

A new study published in Nature has shed light on one of the most enduring questions in cosmology: what caused the Universe to emerge from its primordial darkness? According to recent findings derived from deep-field data captured by the James…

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth…