Category: 7. Science

Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.

“A few days ago, 9 satellites were deployed from a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in…

Astronomers have picked up the first confirmed radio signal from a rare kind of stellar explosion called a Type Ibn supernova, using the NSF’s Very Large Array in New Mexico. The event, SN 2023fyq, gave researchers an 18-month window to track…

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way’s largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly ten million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence that an intermediate mass black hole…

This stack composite photo taken on Dec. 13, 2025 shows the starry sky over Baisha Town of Lijiang City, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The Geminid meteor shower, one of the most spectacular…

The universe is getting bigger, and there’s a problem. Two different ways of measuring its expansion rate give two different answers, and nobody knows why. Now researchers at the University of Tokyo have demonstrated a completely…

Zooming out 67 million light years away from Earth, in the constellation Cancer, Hubble spies a galactic oddity that defies categorization. At least from our angle, which, unfortunately, is the only angle we have.

This odd galaxy is called NGC…

New species are discovered all the time. While some are found in the most remote parts of the planet, others were hiding in plain sight all this time.

Newsweek reported that a new species of spider has been unearthed in the sand dunes…

Dec. 14 (UPI) — SpaceX landed its 550th reusable fuel booster rocket following a late night Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California Saturday.

The mission added another 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to SpaceX’s growing…

Since it commenced science operations in mid-2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has made significant strides in detecting atmospheres around exoplanets. These included providing the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in an…