Category: 7. Science

Galaxies don’t exactly move with urgency. At distances measured in hundreds of thousands of light years and timescales spanning hundreds of millions of years, even a direct collision unfolds slowly. The two spiral galaxies captured in…

NEW ORLEANS — Two NASA heliophysics missions launched together in September are performing well, while a third mission launched earlier this year is beginning limited operations despite problems with one spacecraft.

At the recent…

A year of amazing celestial events has gone by,…

As the moon and Mars take center stage in human spaceflight, scientists are leveraging existing space missions to lay the groundwork for a sustained human presence off-planet.

From pinpointing water resources on the moon to shielding crews from…

The fruit of Africa’s marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

Only the berries aren’t actually blue in the sense most of us might assume. At least, they don’t…

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up lakebed paved with what appears to be a yellow brick road.

The exploration vessel Nautilus discovered the eerie scene…