Jets spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI) Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon’s frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers come…
An Incoming solar storm could strike Earth tonight, triggering geomagnetic storm conditions and northern lights as far south as New York and Idaho. (Image credit: Alan Perlman / 500px via Getty Images) Heads up aurora chasers! We could be in for a treat tonight. A coronal mass ejection (CME) from a powerful solar blast on…
A new genus and species of proterochampsid archosauriform has been identified from an almost complete fossilized hindlimb found in southern Brazil. Artistic representation of a Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil depicting two individuals of the proterochampsid archosauriform Retymaijychampsa beckerorum. Image credit: Caio Fantini. Retymaijychampsa beckerorum roamed our planet during the Late Triassic epoch, some…
New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope support the presence of three specific features — clouds, hot spots, and changing carbon chemistry — in the atmosphere of the rapidly rotating, free-floating planetary-mass object SIMP J013656.5+093347. An artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. Olmsted, STScI. SIMP…
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the highest-energy particles in the Universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. Professor Farrar proposes that binary neutron star mergers are the source of all or most ultrahigh energy cosmic rays; this scenario can account for the heretofore inexplicable narrow rigidity range…
Described in a paper that appears today in the journal Nature Astronomy, the discovery means habitable exoplanets could have started forming much earlier — before the first galaxies formed and billions of years earlier than was previously thought. This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. This Hubble image shows NGC 5042, an intermediate spiral galaxy some 48 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker. NGC 5042 is located around…
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Watch the full version of the “Malema donates R200 000 to child welfare centre on his birthday” article – in a minute. Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema celebrated his birthday by giving back when he donated R200 000 to the Tembisa Child and Family Welfare Society in Gauteng. Malema, who is a notable…
Cabinet has reached an agreement on the budget for the 2025/2026 financial year, which was postponed in February over objections to the proposed two percentage point VAT increase. The Cabinet held a special meeting on Monday, 3 March, to consider inputs by members of the Cabinet into best possible options, under the circumstances, to fund…
Former Kaizer Chiefs attacker Junior Khanye has slammed Orlando Pirates for overly relying on Relebohile Mofokeng. The 20-year-old has scored two league goals and provided five assists this season for the Buccaneers. Despite starting the season positively, Mofokeng has dropped in form as Pirates started losing matches. In their last nine league matches, the Sea…
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