Category: 7. Science

A bleak photograph shows a mother polar bear and her three cubs resting on bare ground and moss, their coats brown with mud.

The image is on the shortlist for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award — a…

NASA was forced to end a critical fueling test of its giant Artemis 2 rocket early in the wee hours of Tuesday, delaying its mission to launch astronauts around the moon by at least a month. Now that a new day has dawned on the big orange…

In two separate studies, paleontologists in Australia and China examined the fossilized remains of enigmatic Devonian lungfish with cutting-edge imaging, revealing overlooked anatomical details and deepening our understanding of early…

Researchers have combined 27 years of infrared data to investigate how young stars change in brightness. Chinmay S Kulkarni, Thomas Behling, and Elisabeth E Banks, all from the Ritter Astrophysical Research Center at the University of Toledo,…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed its first-ever drive on Mars fully planned by artificial intelligence, the space agency announced.

The demonstration, carried out on Dec. 8 and Dec. 10 of 2025, showed that generative AI could safely plan…

The building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of striking the moon in 2032 — and a new study predicts it could also put on a spectacular show for skywatchers by creating thousands of impact flashes as well as extreme meteor…

Two immense, ultrahot rock structures located at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 2,900 km beneath Africa and the Pacific, have been shaping Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years, according to a new study led by University of…

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, which is earlier than scientists previously thought.

The findings, published Monday in Nature…

Scientists are now probing the furthest reaches of spiral galaxy M96 to understand how such galaxies assemble their stellar halos. J. Christopher Mihos (Case Western Reserve University), Patrick R. Durrell (Youngstown State University), and…