Category: 7. Science

In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST…

A Melbourne-based company has completed testing and delivery of three 12-kilowatt Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thrusters. These thrusters, developed by L3Harris Technologies, will be used for NASA’s lunar-orbiting Gateway station…

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes — including W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island — made one of the most precise independent measurements yet of how fast the universe is…

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…

Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the fossil eggs were hollow cavities stuffed with…

Victorians are being told to brace for wild and dangerous weather on Sunday, with potentially destructive storms forecast for some parts of the state.

Strong winds and heavy rainfall are expected across Victoria, according to the Bureau of…

At sunset on January 21, 2024, a European orbiter captured the curved edge of Mars as seen against empty space, glowing with dozens of razor-thin layers. 

The images resolve the atmosphere at 59 feet (18 meters) per pixel, according to a new