Category: 7. Science

“You see it move its eye,” says Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, an associate professor at UC Irvine. “The shark is…

Axel Wittmann had always had “a fondness for exotic rocks,” as he puts it, his favorite being suevite, formed from intense meteorite collisions. But in 2009, when he met fellow geologist Philippe Lambert on an excursion to the…

Climate-driven changes to the distribution of micronutrients across the global ocean may reduce the efficiency iron delivery to marine habitats, weakening the base of marine food…

• Eight supermoons and a rare blue moon highlight the year
• Multiple meteor showers peak from spring through winter
• Six planets line up after sunset in February

From brighter moons to streaks of light across the night sky,…

The first material ever collected from the far side of the Moon could help settle a long-held lunar mystery.

According to a Chinese Academy of Sciences analysis of Moon dust ferried to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the reason the…

Stars are known for their stellar winds, streams of gas and charged particles from their upper atmospheres that collide with the interstellar medium. These winds can create bow shocks in the surrounding gas. But astronomers were…

After a three-and-a-half-month journey, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has finally reached its destination, a strategic location between the Sun and Earth where it will begin its groundbreaking mission to…

Not eating yellow snow is obviously wise advice, but how about snow that looks like a poppy seed bagel? You should also avoid that too, because those “seeds” may actually be tiny critters commonly called snow fleas.

As a video taken at the…