Category: 7. Science

What can fossils teach scientists about the climate on ancient Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how…

Using data from the RadioAstron satellite, astronomers have produced a radio image of two supermassive black holes at the center of the distant quasar OJ 287, where the secondary black hole is in a 12-year orbit around the primary.

A fleet of sentinel spacecraft, including one with a huge solar sail, could watch out for sneaky “space tornadoes” posing a threat to Earth during solar storms, a new study suggests.

The proposal says that four deep-space spacecraft, collectively…

Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on non-renewable resources.

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Astronomers say NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe’s first “dark stars,” primordial bodies of hydrogen and helium that bear almost no resemblance to the nuclear fusion-powered stars we’ve come to…

The past month has seen Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening rapidly ahead of its close approach to the sun, leading to growing excitement that it could shine brightly enough to be seen by the naked eye in mid-late October.

Solar system comets…