Category: 7. Science

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science missions turned their instruments to observe…

Histopathological data remain one of the most trusted tools in science when…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX put more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites into orbit this week with back-to-back Falcon 9 launches.

The milestone matters because Starlink is the revenue engine behind what may be the largest IPO in history, and…

Researchers have found that zebra finch brains show stronger and longer-lasting activity in neurons that control vocal timing when the caller is familiar compared to when it is unfamiliar.

The result links social recognition directly to the neural…

The concept of “cryosleep” — spending prolonged periods of time in suspended animation in…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

During its routine imaging of the universe, the space telescope spotted an unexpected object called C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or comet K1 for short….

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When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have…

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity,…