Category: 7. Science

Astronomers recently pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at a familiar target, the bright nearby star Fomalhaut, and saw something that looked like a new world.

A compact, reflective speck glimmered just beyond the star’s main dust belt –…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers…

Just two days after launch, Europe’s newest Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-1D, transmitted its first radar images, revealing key regions from the Antarctic Peninsula to Tierra del Fuego and the northern German city of Bremen. The…

Of all the lower body joints, the knee is probably the one most likely to send you to the physiotherapist.

“It carries most of the weight of the body, and being a hinge joint, it means that it doesn’t have a nice socket structure,” says…

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million years ago.

The dinosaur, Ahshislesaurus wimani, likely had a flat head and a bony crest low on its snout, researchers…

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• A new theoretical study finds that quantum entanglement may remain distinguishable in principle even after one particle crosses a black hole’s event horizon, challenging the assumption that such correlations become…

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a…

The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any other day in 2026 on Jan. 3, as our planet reaches its closest point to our parent star in its 365-day orbit during an event known to astronomers as perihelion.

Earth orbits the sun at an average…

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar system at far too high a speed to be bound by the…