Category: 7. Science

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory has completed its first map of the entire sky over Earth, and it is incredible.

Beyond its aesthetic value, the map and the rest of the data collected by SPHEREx, which launched in March this year, will help…

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled…

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made around 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods – bipedal…

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have to know where…

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

For more than twenty years, astronomers have puzzled over how these gravitational behemoths…

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.