Category: 7. Science

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Florida’s Space Coast hosted a record number of rocket launches in 2025, and for the first time ever, the number of launches reached triple digits.

So far, the Space Coast’s facilities have tallied 109…

By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird part-solid, part-liquid-like state thought to exist inside Earth’s inner core is indeed possible.

This superionic

Florida’s Space Coast hosted a record number of rocket launches in 2025, and for the first time ever, the number of launches reached triple digits.

So far, the Space Coast’s launch facilities have…

This year, the number of NASA-tracked confirmed worlds discovered beyond our solar system surpassed 6,000, and several thousand more await confirmation.

The milestone, reached just three decades after the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the

In remote West Antarctica, two glaciers are melting.

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers account for more than a third of the total ice loss in Antarctica. Thwaites, roughly the size of Florida, is

An international team of astronomers has achieved a historic milestone in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an unprecedented distance.

The…

Astronomers use many mnemonics (memory tricks?) to remember stars and constellations. One of these that is visible right now is the Winter Circle.

Follow Orion’s three belt stars southeast (down and to the left)…