Category: 7. Science

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…

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…

NASA’s cleanrooms rank among the cleanest spaces on Earth, and for good reason — these sterile spaces are fortified to prevent even the hardiest Earth microbes from hitching a ride to other worlds aboard NASA spacecraft. Yet even in the most…

Identification of lytic phages in bacterial assemblies

To identify complete lytic bacteriophage genome sequences within bacterial genome assemblies (BAPS), we developed a comprehensive bioinformatic workflow (Supplementary Fig. 1), starting with…

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…