Category: 7. Science

The small, furtive companion of one of the brightest stars in Earth’s night sky has just turned out to be something no one suspected.

Instead of being the kind of object astronomers expected to find orbiting mega-weirdo Betelgeuse, the binary…

Researchers from Hirosaki University have discovered that signals from pulsars suggest that ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos.

The signal seen by international pulsar timing array collaborations in 2023 could…

We identified 14,518 unique hits through electronic database searches, and an additional 230 through grey literature searches. Following exclusions at title/abstract and full text stage, a total of 35 articles from the database searches and 33…

For centuries, great thinkers have pondered why, given the hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, we have seen no compelling signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Now, scientists are mulling an intriguing possibility: if aliens exist,…

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even Earth—is older than the disk’s star itself, offering breakthrough insights into the history of water in our Solar…