The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the smallest known extrasolar planet that contains water in its atmosphere, the US (NASA) and European (ESA) space agencies announced Thursday. “Water on such a small planet is a remarkable discovery,” said Laura Kreidberg of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, co-director of the research. “This brings … Read more
According to a study by a professor at the University of Ottawa, some people may have first settled in what is now Alaska nearly 14,000 years ago by following the tracks of mammoths. For four years, Clément Bataille, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Ottawa, and … Read more
An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest black hole that existed since the cosmic dawn, when the universe was barely 400 million years old, according to a study published on Wednesday. The detection pushes back the detection of a massive black hole by “about 200 million years,” Jan Scholtz, an astrophysicist at the … Read more