Category: 7. Science

Using archival radar data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, planetary researchers have identified a vast underground conduit beneath the surface in the Venusian region of Nyx Mons.

During the lead-up to NASA’s Artemis 1 mission back in 2022, recurring hydrogen leaks led to significant delays and a cancelled launch attempt. The agency had three years to address the underlying issues with the Space Launch…

NASA and SpaceX are ready to send a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as this week, pending the weather.

On Monday (Feb. 9), mission managers adjusted their target date for the Crew-12 launch by at least a day due to a…

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is…

Astronomers have discovered an exciting new “sungrazing” comet that will have a perilously close encounter with our home star in less than two months. Some experts predict the hefty ice ball could become bright enough to be visible to the naked…

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord.

This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses and managed and…

Lasers are now helping scientists peer inside some of the world’s most fragile scientific treasures without ever opening them.

Researchers have developed a laser-based scanning technique that can identify the preservation fluids inside…

Forest soils are doing more climate work than most people realize, quietly absorbing methane from the air year after year.

New long-term measurements from southwest Germany show that, in some forests, this underground methane sink has been…

Earth’s biosphere is brimming with symbiotic relationships: from bacteria that became our cells’ mitochondria, to mycorrhizal fungi that help plants grow, to the myriad mites, wasps, worms, and flies that make a living by parasitizing other…