Robert C. Cowen, writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Is it possible for the universe to be younger than the oldest thing in it? No, it is not possible for the universe to be younger than the oldest thing in it. This is because the oldest thing in the universe is used as a reference point for determining the ag...
"It's astounding how this thing actually is sitting in place already with its galaxy so early on in the universe," Natarajan said. The researchers believe the black holes formed from huge clouds of gas that collapsed in a galaxy next to another with stars. The two galaxies joined, and the...
Until Aubert went to Sulawesi, the oldest dated art was firmly in Europe. The spectacular lions and rhinos of Chauvet Cave, in southeastern France, are commonly thought to be around 30,000 to 32,000 years old, and mammoth-ivory figurines found in Germany correspond to roughly the same time....
"The exceptional thing is the position of the beach on a rocky platform that is covered in clay sediments," Sedrati said. "These sediments create good conditions to preserve the tracks on the sandbar while the tides rapidly buried the beach. That's...
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JWST detecting light with a redshift of z=13 means that it has already pushed our view of the universe another 100 million years closer to the big bang. The remarkable thing about this is how quickly Webb gathered the observati...
Officially, UDFj-39546284 remains a "galaxy candidate," requiring some more observations to confirm its existence and age with certainty. But after performing a number of tests, Bouwens and his team are confident that the galaxy is there, and that its redshift is around 10.3. "Everything we ...
[the papyri] there is that this was the last mission of the team, I imagine because of the death of the king. I think they just stopped everything and closed up the galleries and then as they were leaving buried the archives in the area between the two large stones used to s...
Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit en