Three paintings stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis are being sold for an estimated £20million at auction after finally being returned to his …
NEW DELHI : Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi’s seized assets including artworks, luxury watches, handbags and cars will go under the hammer at …
Among the many traditions used to celebrate Chinese New Year, a lesser-known one is the custom of enjoying New Year paintings, also known as …
A disputed painting of Vincent van Gogh has been declared a genuine self-portrait by the Dutch master, almost 50 years after its authenticity was first …
… . . On April 19, 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team unveiled humanity’s first image of a supermassive black hole –described as the Gates of Hell and the End of Spacetime– the picture of galaxy Messier 87’s central supermassive black hole –a …
(CNN) More than two billion years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth and created a 43-mile wide crater in Western Australia’s outback. Now, researchers believe it is the oldest known impact crater, predating others by 200 million years. And it’s possible that …
It’s a tough job to figure out which planets are potentially habitable, because we can only see so much detail in our telescopes. Details of an exoplanet’s atmosphere and climate, for example, are mostly out of reach. A new study, however, uses computer …
Nearly one month ago, Boeing completed the first orbital test flight of its Starliner spacecraft with a near-perfect landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The mission had to be cut short due to a well-publicized timing error that delayed the …
NASA has many tools at its disposal when it comes to making observations of distant objects in space, but one of the space agency’s most reliable instruments is about to wrap up its mission after over a decade and a half of service. The Spitzer Space …
Earth’s first magnetic field 4.2 billion years ago was much stronger than previously thought and may have provided the protection needed for life to begin on the planet, according to a new study. Clues about this field come from minuscule grains of magnetite, …