Category: 7. Science

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…

AI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world’s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States to take up a full-time role at Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China.

One of…

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent.

The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) on Dec. 6,…

A planet with no star to call its own found a temporary home on Earth last year.

Astronomers have now estimated the planet’s weight, as well as other basic characteristics that describe it as a smaller and lighter sibling of our own giant…

Your first major opportunity to spot shooting stars and bright fireballs in 2026 arrives overnight tonight with the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, though only the brightest members may be visible, as the annual event crescendos in the…