Category: 7. Science

A new study has found that a common tree disease can turn some dry northern forests from methane sinks into methane sources.

The finding suggests that damage hidden inside living trunks may be quietly changing how much warming a forest helps…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month shows Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), two protoplanetary disks located about 450 and 480 light-years from Earth in the constellations Taurus and Ophiuchus…

Researchers have captured the first X-ray image of a bubble around a young, Sun-like star called HD 61005, revealing hot gas extending far beyond the star itself.

That discovery turns a distant system into a direct look at the kind of shield that…

The closest planet to our Sun, Mercury, experiences extreme temperature variations. Since the planet has no atmosphere to speak of, it is in a constant cycle of where one side is extremely hot and the other extremely cold. On the…

NASA has unveiled a new historic view of our planet, releasing a photograph of Earth slipping below the lunar horizon more than 57 years after the iconic “Earthrise” image was captured by an Apollo 8…

Astronomers using LOFAR have mapped 13.7 million radio sources across most of the northern sky, creating the most complete census yet of actively growing supermassive black holes.

That map turns the quiet radio sky into a record of violent…

Sometimes it can seem like science has Nature all figured out. In mainstream press, that idea is hard to avoid, even if it’s never stated overtly. But scientists, and maybe astronomers especially, see things differently.

When you’re a…

As the Orion spacecraft heads back to Earth and towards the conclusion of the Artemis II lunar fly-by…