Category: 7. Science

Scientists interested in the history of the solar system study the population of comets and asteroids with stable orbits around the Sun, located near Earth, known as near-Earth objects or NEOs. These NEOs potentially provided water and…

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the almost psychedelic vision of the vibrant green and purple lights dancing across the sky. The desire to catch a glimpse of what are officially known as the aurora borealis and aurora australis has…

Key Takeaways

• Sports injuries tend to be more severe if they occur during a female athlete’s period

• Athletes take…

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Stanley Mordensky, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself.

This effect is known as frame-dragging, or the Lense-Thirring…

What was your skywatching highlight of 2025? A comet becoming visible to the naked eye? Mars disappearing behind the moon? Or did you glimpse a “blood moon” total lunar eclipse and see the northern lights at last?

Here’s what happened in the…

The Milky Way, our home galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars, was bright and vibrantly visible from Florida earlier in 2025.

Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.

While the Milky…