Category: 7. Science

Introduction

Global plastic production has reached alarming levels, amounting to hundreds of millions of tons annually.^1–3 Over time, plastic waste breaks down into smaller fragments, fibers, or debris, collectively referred to as…

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge?

Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long while, you’d be forgiven for thinking…

Listen to this audio excerpt from Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman, leads of the Orion Mission Evaluation Room for the Artemis II mission:

During NASA’s Artemis II mission, Jen Madsen and…

Title: A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at z = 3.5

Authors: Anna de Graaff, Hans-Walter Rix, Rohan P. Naidu, Ivo Labbe, Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja,…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled. It will undergo extensive testing during the first half of 2026. Courtesy of NASA

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) celebrated its 4^th anniversary in space on Dec. 25….

A team of South Korean researchers have found that a mysterious…

The Secret Artemis II Downtown Art Trail officially returned to downtown Huntsville this week, relaunching a space-themed scavenger hunt designed to celebrate the city’s decades-long role in America’s space program while encouraging residents…