Category: 7. Science

How do you search for invisible hypothetical particles? One way is to see how quickly they could kill white dwarfs — the dense, leftover cores of dead stars.

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical…

A newly discovered exoplanet has to take the crown for the weirdest world we’ve ever spotted out there in the Milky Way galaxy.

It’s called PSR J2322-2650b, and everything about it is absolutely loony. It’s a hot Jupiter orbiting a…

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the “Christmas Star” from the story of the nativity. Described in the Gospel of Matthew, the star guided the three wise men to the cradle of the…

Genetic traces captured from air samples reveal a long term biodiversity decline over 34 years in northern Sweden.

A research team reconstructed ecosystems near Kiruna by reading DNA fragments preserved on archived air filters.

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In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998, has long been…

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NASA has a new high-tech sensor to help the search for critical minerals in the American West.

The sensor is called AVIRIS-5 (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-5), and it comes from technology developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion…