Category: 7. Science

A new study of Earth’s upper atmosphere has discovered spikes in lithium ion levels following the return of a Falcon 9 rocket upper stage, which broke up on reentry. With SpaceX planning to rapidly increase its number of orbiting satellites by

Space is full of odd light sources astronomers don’t quite understand, like double supernovas, weird blue flashes, random Venn diagrams, and more. And just when we thought we’d seen it all, there’s a new addition to the…

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It’s located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson liquid suddenly gushes from the dazzling white…

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta Astronautica from Anna Marie Brenna of…

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS provided scientists with an exceptionally rare opportunity to study the nature of other planetary systems beyond our own. It was first discovered in July of last year, heading straight past the Sun and making its

Two supermassive black holes on a dizzying death spiral could soon become visible to astronomers after researchers worked out how, while rotating around each other, these dark, massive behemoths could gravitationally lens the stars behind…