More “fast radio bursts” – bright, short-lived pulses of radio waves that come from across the universe – have been detected by astronomers.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Light from dawn of time discovered
An extremely distant quasar has been discovered, one that astronomers say emits light from the dawn of time, a new study suggests.
15,000 murders a day: August-October 1942 were the Holocaust’s deadliest months
The killing only stopped when there was no one left to murder: From August to October 1942, 1.2 million Jews were slain by the Nazis.
Milky Way could hit another galaxy in 2 billion years, sending solar system flying
“Spectacular” cosmic collision with the Large Magellenic Cloud might knock our solar system into intergalactic space, British astronomers say.
USA had world’s 3 costliest natural disasters in 2018, and Camp Fire was the worst
Causing damage at a cost of $16.5 billion, the devastating Camp Fire was the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018.
Antarctic ice melts to January record low
The amount of sea ice aroundAntarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced Thursday. It’s the smallest January area since records began in 1978.
Confused about the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ that’s coming soon? Here’s your guide
Sure, you may know the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ is coming to a sky near you this month. But what does it all mean?
NASA photographs icy, reddish ‘space snowman’ discovered outside our solar system
The “snowman” is roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto – making it the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
These species went extinct in 2018. More may be doomed to follow in 2019.
They’d been on our planet for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially vanished forever.
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees
A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots.