Category: 7. Science

An asteroid which risks colliding with the moon in just years could produce “the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history”, scientists say.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which at one point risked smashing into Earth, has the potential…

Originally launched in 1999, the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory has now amassed a catalogue of over 1.3 million individual detections. These detections are available for viewing in the Chandra Source Catalogue (CSC) 2.1 version, which contains…

The latest discoveries in Central China’s Henan province are filling critical gaps in understanding East Asia’s role in human evolution during a key period of the Paleolithic era, shedding light on how ancient…

Scientists have definitively proven the Milky Way underwent a significant merger just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, pushing back the timeline of our galaxy’s formation. Davide Massari, from Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello…

The light, rare element boron, better known as the primary component of borax, a longtime household cleaner, was almost mined to exhaustion in parts of the old American West. But boron could arguably be an unsung hero in cosmic…

Researchers have tracked a looping fractional charge in ultrathin carbon and seen it return with a consistent interference rhythm.

The result strengthens the case for quantum particles whose collective state can retain a record of earlier…

If you want a quiet but brutally clear signal of how badly biodiversity is unraveling on islands, look at land snails.

A major new review led by Robert Cowie at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa argues that the scale of loss isn’t just…

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than January 2027 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“The award of our fifth…