Category: 7. Science

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust around two aging Wolf-Rayet stars in…

Over the course of billions of years, the Universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the Universe, we are able to “see” back in time to watch that evolution, almost from the beginning.

But every once in a while, we see…

Human beings are pretty familiar with the concept of “ice ages.” Not only is their ample physical evidence to suggest that glacial periods occurred during the Pleistocene epoch – which lasted from ca. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago,…

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket aced its first-ever landing last week — and even managed to stay pretty, despite the ordeal.

The milestone occurred on Nov. 13, during the launch of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes from Florida’s Space Coast. New…

Cave minerals from far northern Greenland show that the High Arctic once thawed and flowed with liquid water. The new record points to mean annual air temperatures roughly 25 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today.

Those minerals grew between…

Around Oct. 30, the mysterious out-of-this-world 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point in the solar system, roughly 130 million miles away from the Sun.

Despite that vast distance, experts in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination…

The…

Only two weeks after fertilization, the first sign of the formation of the three axes…