Category: 7. Science

Astronomers have observed a strange but powerful supernova explosion that not only marked the death of a massive, highly evolved star, but also may have heralded the birth of a pair of binary black holes.

The team behind this discovery studied…

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to determine if any were in the habitable…

One of the best things about NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are the amazing scenic photographs that they produce of Mars’ landscape. These photos give scientists a better view of our red neighbor and are also just cool to see. The…

SpaceX added 29 more Starlink satellites to its low Earth orbit megaconstellation today (Jan. 14).

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the broadband internet relay units launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in…

When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very differently than back here on Earth.

So, as humans aim to set foot on Mars in the coming decades, researchers are seeking to…

Astronomers have broken two records at once by spotting the largest and the most distant flare ever seen, coming from a supermassive black hole 10 billion lightyears away. 

Appropriately dubbed ‘Superman’, the flare shines with the power of…

Cancer cells use mitochondria stolen from immune cells to spread and escape detection, according to…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back.

That’s what Andrea Donnellan does.

An…