Category: 7. Science

SpaceX launched two more batches of Starlink satellites on Saturday (Feb. 21), and in the process set a new rocket reuse record.

First up at 4:04 a.m. EST (0904 GMT or 1:04 a.m. PST local time), a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4…

For over a century, farmers have been concerned about nitrogen. It is one of the main nutrients crops need to grow.

Without it, wheat plants remain short and pale. With a healthy amount of nitrogen, they flourish and grow strong, filling grain…

Faded white rings around rusting barrels on the ocean floor have been traced to leaks of highly corrosive chemical waste into the surrounding mud.

The finding shows that material dumped off the U.S. coast decades ago is still reshaping deep…

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons, with more than 400 orbiting the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a handful are targets for astrobiology…