Category: 7. Science

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an apocalypse.

Researchers have recently…

WASHINGTON — NASA officials defended their preparations for the Artemis 2 mission after a fueling test experienced the same type of hydrogen leaks that bedeviled Artemis 1 more than three years ago.

NASA wrapped up the wet dress…

A fossil trunk vertebra from the Chiting Formation of Taiwan reveals that nearly 4-m-long pythons roamed the island during the Middle Pleistocene.

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky Way. These stars, as it turned out, were unbound objects that had been kicked out of the Milky Way and…

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,…