Category: 7. Science

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s “Backyard Astronomy Guy,” Marty McGuire.

Mark your calendar for the total lunar eclipse that takes place just…

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

Each time SpaceX did a test run of…

Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more or less aware of myself, of my personal existence. At the same time it is I who am aware; so that the total self of me, being as it were duplex, partly known and partly knower,…

In 1981, a clay sculpture called the “Great Mother” was discovered in an ancient village in…

The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), to study a galaxy in the early universe – about three billion years after the Big Bang.

The galaxy,…

Original story from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY, USA).

A new mass spectrometry technique sorts molecules to capture those of lower abundance.

For scientists, a molecule’s weight can help determine its makeup. For measures like…

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have imaged a…

A tiny chunk of dead star just 731 light-years away has presented astronomers with a shimmering puzzle: a powerful, glowing bow shock.

This wouldn’t be unusual under many circumstances, but in the case of the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, there’s…