Life on Earth began 260 million years after the planet’s early atmosphere witnessed two major spikes in oxygen concentration — the first one is called the ‘great oxygenation event,’ which occurred one roughly 2.3 billion years ago, Read More
John Kovac and his team created a sensation when they announced finding the evidence of primordial gravitational waves in March 2014, thus confirming the theory of inflation. However, this study has become embroiled in controversy ever Read More
A team of researchers headed by Simon Clark reported that they have found the “runaway star” that caused the Milky Way Galaxy’s only magnetar—a rare type of neutron star that is highly dense Read More
Scientists have discovered an ancient tundra landscape under the Greenland Ice Sheet, preserved for 2.7 million years. This discovery provides strong evidence that the Greenland Ice Sheet has persisted much longer than previously known, enduring through Read More
Physicists have made a groundbreaking finding by gathering evidence of a long-predicted twist in light from the big bang that represents the first image of ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. John Kovac, a Read More
Using sophisticated plate tectonic and 3D numerical modeling, geoscientists have been able to show that break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130 million years ago could have led to a completely different shape of the African Read More
In a new study, researchers have concluded that the majority of circumbinary planets must have formed much further away from the central binary stars and then migrated to their current location. The researchers arrived at Read More
Scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a Be star. The scientists, who conducted a detailed analysis of the star’s spectrum, found that the star Read More
According to a new study, the presence of molecular hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water on Mars could have created a greenhouse effect on the red planet 3.8 billion years. Read more in Nature Geoscience. RM Ramirez Read More
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has uncovered a solar system whose planets orbit at a steep angle to their star’s equator. Read more in Science. Huber et al., Science, 2013; 342 DOI: 10.1126/science.1242066Read More
