Contrary to official predictions, solar cycle 25 is getting off to an explosive start, with solar activity proving to be much higher than the weak cycle that was officially forecast, featuring a higher than expected sunspot count, numerous coronal mass ejections and at least three X-class flares having erupted sinceread more
A new archaeological find in New Mexico has added to a growing body of evidence that modern humans have been present in the Americas for much longer than the conventionally-accepted duration of 13,000 years, with the discovery of a set of 23,000-year-old footprints made by children playing in the tracks ofread more
Russian forces have used hypersonic missiles to destroy ground targets in their invasion of Ukraine—the first time such weapons have been used in combat—and a quantity of radioactive material has disappeared from a monitoring lab near the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On March 19 Russian defence ministry spokesman Majorread more
Having completed alignment of its primary mirror array, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured sharp test images that exceeded the expectations of the spacecraft’s designers. Although the initial test image taken was of an extremely faint star that is otherwise unremarkable, that image also revealed the existence of dozens of distantread more