Category: 7. Science

The Crew-12 astronauts will soon make their way to the ISS, joining the three remaining spacefarers on board after the previous mission was cut short due to a medical concern. NASA was originally planning a February 15 launch date for the…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between…

A planet locked in ice can still experience seasons, climate swings, and solar rhythms, according to new research. For decades, scientists pictured Snowball Earth as a long pause in climate history, with movement and change frozen in place.

Ice…

On Episode 196 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Scott Solomon, Rice Univeristy professor and researcher, about humanity’s need to…

The European Space Agency has released a new flyover video that traces part of Mars’s southern highlands, offering a slow, close look at one of the…

This week’s science news was filled with incredible discoveries hidden deep inside our planet, including a potential answer to the long-standing mystery of how a tributary of the Colorado River appears to defy gravity.

When it formed millions of…

An international team of scientists have found evidence that monster stars 1,000 to 10,000 times the mass of our Sun existed a mere billion years after the Big Bang. 

The find could answer a decades-old mystery: how supermassive black holes…