Category: 7. Science

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life.

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Covered wagons are often associated with the Old West. But the best-preserved example of an ancient covered wagon…

A bevy of supermoons, a dramatic total solar eclipse and a “blood moon” total lunar eclipse are some of the highlights of the coming lunar year, which will also include plenty of beautiful close conjunctions of the crescent moon and…

Astronomers from the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the Université de Montréal have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover the surprising nature of a world that looked, at…

Beneath the dry hills of southern Xinjiang, geologists have identified a new source of intensely dark black jade called nephrite. The Margou deposit sits along a jade belt about 800 miles (1300 kilometers) long, and its black nephrite blocks look…

A “blood moon” dazzled parts of Earth for the second time in September 2025, although much of the United States could not catch a glimpse of the lunar eclipse.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon and Earth align, allowing the moon to pass…

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded — and dangerously so. Over the last several decades, thousands of satellites, spent rocket stages, fragments from explosions and collisions, and even tiny shavings of paint have amassed around our…

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology, or when the first primitive life forms appeared.

But what if Earth’s life did not originate…