Category: 7. Science

When a species lives in two distinct types of habitats, individuals with traits better suited to each habitat will thrive and reproduce, naturally selecting descendants with those traits. But what about mobile aquatic species that live across a…

The road back to the Moon looks a little different now. On this week’s Planetary Radio, we catch up on the changes to the Artemis program, with recorded remarks from NASA leadership and a breakdown of what the changes mean with The Planetary…

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new study has found, suggesting that microbes could endure interplanetary journeys and potentially seed life on other…

Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 might hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.

Previous analyses had given the event a 4.3 percent chance, but refinements to measurements of its orbit by the European…

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest…

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have revealed a new mechanism that allows electrons to move across solar materials at extraordinary speeds, potentially reshaping how future solar…

Two scientists from Uzbekistan have been recognised by NASA for their contribution to observations that confirmed the first successful attempt to alter the orbit of an asteroid.

The European Space Agency announced on 6 March that it had lost contact with one of the two spacecraft that make up its PROBA-3 mission.

Both PROBA-3 spacecraft were launched aboard an ISRO PSLV-XL rocket in…