Category: 7. Science

A series of viral social media posts drew attention to an old…

A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti of the European Space Agency suggests rogue planets may host habitable moons.

The team found that thick hydrogen atmospheres can trap…

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in Earth’s oceans around 550 million years ago.

For a long time, biologists have kind of considered them the living…

Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet…

How do you unravel the universe’s deepest secrets when the data piles up faster than we can make sense of it? It’s a bit like being handed a zillion puzzle pieces from a cosmic explosion and being told to recreate the original star.

Modern…

This gorgeous snap, taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted…

Astronomers are up in arms, protesting against a proposed constellation of tens of thousands of orbiting mirrors intended to reflect light onto ground-based solar power plants and SpaceX’s envisioned one million orbiting data centers.

The…

The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the largest inland saltwater body in the Western Hemisphere. However, beneath its shimmering, salty surface, scientists have discovered something surprising. There is a large layer of freshwater that reaches depths…