Articles by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...

A team of Harvard and Max Planck Institute researchers has estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explore why...

Astronomers using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, USA, have discovered two black holes inside an ancient...

For the first time ever, an international team of physicists has directly imaged Landau levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behavior...

Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...

Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...

An international team of astrophysicists has the first time measured the black hole’s ‘point of no return’ – the closest distance that...

A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite,...

New observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and Japan’s Suzaku have provided evidence that our Galaxy...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a treasure of impressive prehistoric artifacts at the Ein Zippori site. Stone Age...

An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars. This artist’s...

German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water. An artist’s...

An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms. Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...

The Dark Energy Camera – the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created – has recorded first images in hunt for dark energy, according...

Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster. An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested that a stellar explosion known as the Kepler’s...

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...

A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy. Artist’s...

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star. This image shows the...