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Egyptologists unearth a 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’
The long-sought "lost golden city" of Aten has been found near Luxor, Egypt, in the Valley of Kings. "The mission expects to uncover untouched tombs filled with treasures," the scientists said.
April 9, 2021
Leo loses his tail. We gain a constellation
The constellation Leo once had a tail, a clump of faint stars. Now these same stars are known as Coma Berenices, the hair of a queen.
April 9, 2021
The closest extragalactic fast radio burst yet?
Astronomers detected a new, nearby, repeating fast radio burst, originating from a spot near the great spiral galaxy M81.
April 8, 2021
100 days of sunspots
A blend of a total of 100 images showing every sunspot that appeared on the sun from December 25, 2020, to April 3, 2021.
April 8, 2021
Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano still erupting
The Pacaya volcano in Guatemala is still erupting, spewing rivers of lava and ash clouds. See photos, video, and satellite images.
April 7, 2021
Juno finds a new auroral feature on Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft - whose mission in orbit around Jupiter was recently extended to 2025 - has been used to discover a rapidly expanding auroral ring at the very fringes of the Jovian magnetosphere.
April 7, 2021
Scientists detect X-rays from Uranus
For the first time, scientists have detected X-rays being emitted by the planet Uranus. The discovery was made by a new analysis of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
April 7, 2021
Newly-discovered dino named the ‘one who causes fear’
Around 80 million years ago, as tyrannosaurs ruled the Northern Hemisphere, Llukalkan aliocranianus - or the ‘one who causes fear’ - flourished in the southern continents.
April 6, 2021
An image of a piece of the cosmic web
An international team of astronomers has mapped a piece of the cosmic web without using bright quasars for the first time. They did it by turning a powerful instrument to a single region of the sky for hundreds of hours.
April 5, 2021
