Category: 7. Science

Chinese astronauts have described what happened when they were nearly stranded in space last year after a suspected piece of space junk struck their return capsule.

Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, the crew of the ill-fated Shenzhou-20…

Mars dominates the planetary news with exciting reports. Two NASA rovers, working nearly 3,700 kilometers apart, made discoveries that addressed the question: how far did Mars come toward conditions that, on Earth, supported…

In Argentina’s Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape, including fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and immense long-necked plant-eater Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 tons. But this…

Six planets, including Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, will align along the ecliptic this Saturday, February…

In the summer of 2024, a team of researchers went storm-chasing in a Toyota Sienna minivan in search of tiny, faint sparks lighting up the tips of leaves. As a thunderstorm raged overhead, the researchers pointed their camera at…

Scientists are increasingly focused on understanding the unusual superconducting properties emerging in kagome materials, and a new theoretical study led by Frederik A. S. Philipsen and Mats Barkman, both from the Niels Bohr Institute,…