Category: 7. Science

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.

The Freya gas hydrate mounds were…

SpaceX is preparing to end 2025 with a high-stakes mission carrying Italy’s advanced Earth observation satellite. The company’s final Falcon 9 launch of the year targets December 30 from California, delivering critical reconnaissance…

A Falcon 9 rocket launch and landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base has been delayed a second day in a row.

“To allow more time to perform ground system checkouts, standing down from today’s launch of the COSMO-SkyMed Second…

In a groundbreaking study published in the renowned Science Reports, researchers unveiled the critical role of silica nanoparticles in mitigating the distress caused by chromium heavy metal stress in Mexican marigold (Tagetes erecta L.). This…

On 11 November, a large solar flare measuring X5.1 – on a scale that runs from X1 to X10 and beyond – was observed on the Sun. It released a huge amount of energy towards Earth, resulting in one of the best aurora displays of the year, with…

A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise. Rather than a dinosaur embryo or sediment, it was filled with sparkling crystals of calcite lining the inner shell – a natural dinosaur…