Category: 7. Science

Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in the empirical habitable zone and 24 worlds in the narrower 3D habitable zone, offering scientists a…

Marine scientists have uncovered a large, ancient coral reef more than 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the Gulf of Naples, off southern Italy.

The finding reveals that one of the Mediterranean’s most familiar coastlines still hides a deep…

For more than a century, dinosaur footprints have been both a gift and a headache. They’re some of the most direct evidence we have of animals moving through real landscapes, but they’re also notoriously hard to interpret.

A footprint is not…

An exoplanet so light that it would float on water, were there an ocean large enough, is continuing to frustrate astronomers by concealing its closest secrets with a layer of haze thicker than any ever seen on a planet before.

The haze is so…

Most objects that astronomers and astrophysicists study have existed for billions of years. Things like supermassive black holes, the Milky Way galaxy, even the Sun and the Earth predate humanity by billions of years.

But not the Crab…

The NASA administrator said the space agency wants to increase its presence on the moon with robot landers.

While it hasn’t been formally announced, Administrator Jared Isaacman said in an interview on

There’s something surprisingly soothing about watching fish and other aquatic animals quietly going about their business in another part of the world. That’s probably why projects such as the Fish Doorbell and Beluga Cam have gained such…

A satellite that generates artificial solar eclipses in space has reestablished contact with its handlers after a month of silence.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today (March 19) that it has gotten back in touch with the Coronagraph…