Category: 7. Science

If you’ve been following the story of comet 3I/ATLAS since its discovery on 1 July 2025, you’ll know that the story has been a bit of a rollercoaster.

From the initial excitement of learning that this amazing object is an interstellar visitor,…

Roughly 4.5 million years ago, the sun passed remarkably close to two intensely bright stars whose radiation flooded nearby space — and the encounter left a ghostly scar that astronomers can still detect today, according to a new study.

The…

Chemists are constantly uncovering new materials, medicines and stunning new insights into the chemical processes that underpin the world we live in. 2025 has been no different, and the Chemistry World team has been kept busy as we try to keep…

Imperial College London researchers are celebrating a huge milestone after their magnetometer instrument successfully recorded its first data in space aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and…

The key feature of spintronic devices is their ability to use spin currents to transfer momentum, enabling low-energy, high-speed storage and logical signal control. These devices are usually manipulated by electric currents and fields….

Braving the bitter night cold a photographer captured the moment when a massive fireball from the Geminid meteor shower streaked across the sky on Sunday at the Helan Mountain National Forest Park…

Astronomers just discovered the oldest supernova to date. Named GRB 250314A, this ancient star exploded at a time when the universe was still finding its footing.

Not long after the first galaxies lit up the dark, something massive collapsed,…