Category: 7. Science

A world-first discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according to astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU).

The discovery is part of an ambitious 10-year…

A nearly 14-foot adult great white shark, the largest male ever tagged in the Atlantic Ocean, was recently recorded in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence, off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, according to tracking data from OCEARCH. The…

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A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct, the ones by US startup Reflect Orbital would produce light pollution by…

A near-complete skeleton found in Dorset on the UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a brand-new species of ichthyosaur. 

These prehistoric marine reptiles look a lot like dolphins and from the Early Triassic (250 million years ago) to…

A nearly complete fossil skeleton found on the U.K.’s Jurassic Coast represents a newly identified species of ancient marine reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs.

The ichthyosaur, dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapsis, was likely around 10 feet (3…

When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, they brought with them samples of lunar soil (regolith) and rock. The analysis of these samples forever changed our perceptions of how the Earth-Moon system formed and evolved….

A team of astronomers has captured a young world, WISPIT 2b, sitting inside a dark ring around its star. The object is a protoplanet, a planet still forming inside a broad disk of gas and dust.

Instead of hiding in the central hole of the disk,…