Tag the Mysteries of the cosmos - results: 49
In cosmic gamma-ray flashes astrophysicists have spotted the "reverse time"
gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most powerful explosions in the Universe. Scientists not much is known about their nature, however, a group of researchers from the University of Charleston (USA), who studied the data from s...
Russian scientist offered a grim explanation of the Fermi paradox
the Unimaginable size of the Universe has long made scientists to believe in an almost endless profusion of habitable worlds in it. If so, where is actually everybody? In General, this is the whole point of the so-called Fermi par...
Proposed a new recipe for the search of alien life
For most kinds of life in the Universe oxygen can be a deadly poison. But, oddly enough, it may significantly simplify the search of such a life for astrobiologists. Imagine you get in your time machine that can travel for billion...
10 reasons to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life
Despite the skeptical views of the public majority, alien life forms – developed or at least simple – most likely exist somewhere in the vast expanses of the Universe. Moreover, many scientists agree that to deny it is pointless. ...
CERN: our Universe shouldn't exist
"All our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, why our Universe shouldn't exist", says Christian Smorra from the collaboration BASE at the research center CERN. "There has to be asymmetry, but we jus...
10 events that will occur at the death of our Sun
what is the life cycle of our star, the Sun, will one day come to its end, is a well known fact. According to scientists, this cycle is about 10 billion years. Current age of our sun, approaching 5 billion years. This leads to a v...
Astronomers have caught a strange radio signal from the stars is 11 light years from us
Astronomers reported the discovery of "strange signals" going in the direction from the small, dim stars located at about 11 light years from Earth. Signals were received on may 12. They were caught, the Arecibo Observatory's gian...
Strange radio pulses from another galaxy: maybe aliens?
Since their discovery, about 10 years ago, fast discrete radio pulses do not cease to amaze scholars. These intergalactic bursts of radio emission have , however, according to the new hypothesis, they can be technological in natur...
The mystery of the distant nebula gives astronomers peace
Astronomers are faced with quite an interesting case. In one of the far corners of the Universe discovered a huge glowing bubble of gas, and scientists can't explain what causes it to glow. Discovered nebula located in the center ...