Category: 7. Science

The full moon phase will begin at 6:20 p.m. Astana time on November 5, and by 03:30 a.m. on November 6, the Moon will reach perigee 356,832 km from Earth, making the lunar disk appear 7.9% larger and 16% brighter than during an…

Halloween fever isn’t gone,…

A team of researchers was doing fieldwork investigation around Pha Daeng Cave in Thailand in 2024. Their specific mission was to research wildlife in that area. On a rock they found two dragon millipedes mating. Upon closer inspection, though,…

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You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother’s job in the Wyoming badlands. But that’s what Paul Sereno, a…

When you open your fridge, you expect it to be cooler than your kitchen. Similarly, when astronomers look back billions of years into the universe’s history, they expect to find it was hotter than today. A team of Japanese researchers…

Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third known visitor from beyond our Solar System, has been brightening far more rapidly than expected as it approaches perihelion, its closest point to the Sun. From Earth, the comet has been positioned almost…