Category: 7. Science

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon.

In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a roughly 10-day mission — the closest humans will…

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon.

In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a roughly 10-day mission — the closest humans will…

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has discovered a highly efficient mechanism for shaking magnets using very short light pulses, shorter than a trillionth of a second.

An experimental…

This week in science: How a storm slowed down time in the US; why you might soon be using garlic mouthwash; frogs gift us a powerful new cancer treatment; and much more!

One Protein Is a Better Predictor of Heart Disease Than Cholesterol

The first meteor shower of 2026 is nearly here.

The Quadrantids are expected to peak overnight Jan. 3-4, 2026, with about 10 meteors per hour, traveling at 25 miles per second, according to NASA. The meteor shower began after Christmas on Dec. 26…

It has been a whirlwind year for space science, to say the least.

The Trump administration only entered office at the beginning of this year, but has already shaken up the world of academic research and the structure of major science…

Recent intriguing images of 3I/ATLAS have captured the…

The sun is the biggest object in the solar system; at about 865,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) across, it’s more than 100 times wider than Earth. Despite being enormous, our star is often called a “dwarf.” So is the sun really a dwarf…