Category: 7. Science

Skywatchers have plenty to look forward to in 2026, with a lineup of dazzling naked-eye events in the night sky throughout the year. From total solar and lunar eclipses and brilliant planetary conjunctions to iconic meteor showers peaking under…

Michel Siffre, just 23 years old at the time, set out to study glaciers. Instead, he emerged as the accidental founder of human chronobiology, a field now vital to medicine, neuroscience, and even space exploration. His extreme underground…

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare interstellar visitor, a comet not gravitationally bound to any star, and only the third such object ever identified.

When discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Rio Hurtado,…

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare interstellar visitor, a comet not gravitationally bound to any star, and only the third such object ever identified.

When discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Rio Hurtado,…

Early in December, the U.S. Space Force‘s Combat Forces Command (CFC) formally accepted operational responsibility for the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) after the successful completion of a series of tests. This advanced radar system…

Title: The Flying Saucer edge-on disc’s Near Infrared silhouette revealed by the JWST JEDIce program

Authors: E. Dartois, J. A. Noble, J. B. Bergner, K. M. Pontoppidan, K. Assani, D. Harsono, M. K. McClure, J. C. Santos, W. E….

Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone.

A species of needle-shaped, warm-water fish called the Asian noodlefish also lacks hemoglobin and red blood cells. Like icefish, its veins are…

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids.

Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids to figure out which of these…

Oregon’s second-tallest mountain has been hiding. Fires in 2017 and 2020 burned the easiest route to Mount Jefferson, closing the Whitewater Creek Trail for eight long years.

This past winter, I snowshoed up that trail to see if…