Category: 7. Science

The bright green comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś) displays increasing…

While the new moon this Tuesday (Feb. 17) will pass without much fanfare in most of the world, something more exciting will be taking place over a sliver of Antarctica: a “ring of fire” solar eclipse, also known as an annular solar…

An analysis of geological proxy records shows that Earth’s atmospheric oxygen levels and geomagnetic field strength evolved in parallel over the past 540 million years. The study compares reconstructions of atmospheric oxygen concentration…

Astronomers say they’ve spotted a vast cave lurking beneath the surface of Venus — providing the strongest evidence yet that the planet is tunneled with lava tubes.

The…

Astronomers have captured their clearest view yet of a star collapsing and forming a black hole.

The event was discovered in archive data from 2014, captured by a now-defunct NASA asteroid-hunting space telescope.

Using the data, astronomers…

Planets go through different life stages: They form, evolve and eventually meet an end. But the timelines for these processes differ widely between Earth-like planets and worlds that orbit less-powerful stars.

So, how long do most planets last?

Saturn and Neptune are less than a degree apart in a perfect north-south line this evening, visible with binoculars or any telescope.

A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.

SpaceX launched the replacements as soon as possible at NASA’s…

Astronomers have been struggling to explain mysterious repeating bright radio pulses with unusually long periods. New research suggests that such flashes…