IBM revealed its most powerful quantum computer to date at the IBM Summit 2022 on Wednesday. Known as “Osprey,” the 433-qubit processor has the biggest qubit count of any IBM processor and is thrice the size of the company’s previously record-breaking 127-qubit Eagle processor. According to the latest release, the Osprey processor can run multiplex

Observations with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed a hidden Jupiter-like planet orbiting the star AF Leporis, 87.5 light-years away. Two groups of astronomers led by Dino Mesa (INAF, Italy) and Robert De Rosa (ESO, Chile) studied star catalogs obtained with the Hipparcos and Gaia satellites of the

THERE’S SOMETHING OUT THERE: Astronomers Find Repeating Signals From Galaxy 3 Billion Light-Years Away… “Bursts from this source have never been seen at this high a frequency.” Scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative at the University of California (UOC), Berkeley, which is devoted to discovering signs of alien intelligent life, recorded 15 repeating fast radio

Only 1-in-10,000 galaxies look like this! Ring galaxies, the rarest in the Universe, finally explained… With a flawlessly symmetrical ring encircling a red sphere of stars, Hoag’s object is one of the most stunning mysteries in the universe. If you look closely at the serpent constellation in the northern sky, you might notice a galaxy

BREAKING: Scientists Just Took an Actual Picture of a Planet in Another Star System… In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have taken an actual picture of a planet in another star system using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. The planet, named PDS 70b, is a gas giant with a mass several times that of

Astronomers Detect a Cosmic Object Speeding Through the Milky Way at 2.5 Million Mph…. A strange star is moving through our galaxy at a speed that is hard to imagine. Astronomers found PSR J0002+6216, a lone runner moving at 2.5 million miles per hour, nearly 4 million kilometers per hour, or 700 miles per second

Discovered Super-Earth ‘Ross 508b’, Located Just 37 Light-Years Away, May Possess Potential to Support Life… “Are we alone in this universe?” is a question that many of us have considered. While humanity does not yet have definite answers to this question, scientists are continuously on the search for indicators that might point to the presence

There are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way Galaxy Alone, Astronomers Suggest… Perhaps you believe that one Earth is sufficient. But what if the number was in the billions? According to new research, the number of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy could approach 6 billion. Astronomers at the University of British

Another universe existed before ours – and energy from it is coming out of black holes… An older universe existed before the Big Bang, and proof for its existence can still be found in black holes, according to a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.Sir Roger Penrose made the assertion after receiving the award for advances in Einstein’s

James Webb ST Has JUST captured an Almost Perfect Einstein Ring 12 Billion Light-Years Away… Since the initial James Webb Space Telescope photographs were released in July, our feeds have been inundated with breathtaking images of space, ranging from amazingly detailed images of Jupiter to the furthest distant known star. Image Credits: A colourized representation

To search for alien life, astronomers will search for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so. The ingredients necessary for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place with life in the universe, detecting life beyond

A bizarre ‘ultraluminous X-ray source’ shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds. Something in outer space is breaking the law — the laws of physics, that is. Astronomers call these lawbreakers ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs), and they exude about 10 million times

Astronomers have uncovered fresh facts about one of the universe’s oddest structures. Odd enough to be called “Radio Circles” (ORC). These enormous occurrences are unexplained and may have a million light-year diameters. Five ORCs have been found, with six more potential. Scientists can’t describe these unfathomable monsters to humans. A March 20 report gives new

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests… Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible. In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible

A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From… When ‘Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one knew where it came from. Astronomers, on the other hand, think they know how Comet 2I/Borisov got here. Astronomers have found an object from

With wires and soda cans, a 12-year-old Senegalese boy built a telescope that allows him to see the surface of the Moon… The interest in space phenomena and the hours of reading the book, The Whole Universe, was what prompted Malick Ndiaye to design a telescope with the few resources he had. The boy born

Flat Earther Spends $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat And Accidentally Proves It’s Round… In what may be one of the most enjoyable TV moments we can recall, a bunch of conspiracy theorists unintentionally spent thousands of dollars to show that, yes, the Earth is round. A scene from Behind the Curve, a new

Space rocks that fell to Earth within the last century contain the five bases that store information in DNA and RNA, scientists report April 26 in Nature Communications. These “nucleobases” — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil — combine with sugars and phosphates to make up the genetic code of all life on Earth. Whether