Category: 7. Science

Scientists have definitively proven the Milky Way underwent a significant merger just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, pushing back the timeline of our galaxy’s formation. Davide Massari, from Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello…

The light, rare element boron, better known as the primary component of borax, a longtime household cleaner, was almost mined to exhaustion in parts of the old American West. But boron could arguably be an unsung hero in cosmic…

Researchers have tracked a looping fractional charge in ultrathin carbon and seen it return with a consistent interference rhythm.

The result strengthens the case for quantum particles whose collective state can retain a record of earlier…

If you want a quiet but brutally clear signal of how badly biodiversity is unraveling on islands, look at land snails.

A major new review led by Robert Cowie at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa argues that the scale of loss isn’t just…

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than January 2027 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“The award of our fifth…

It is the best of times, and it is (far from, actually,) the worst of time for NASA, with two big astronaut launches converging toward the same week, as a rare Arctic cold front pushes mission schedules into a logistical whirlwind.

It’s a tale…

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow transit in the archival data from NASA’s Kepler extended K2 mission.

We see stars as the main constituent of galaxies. They’re the visible part, and they’re what announce a galaxy’s presence. But a galaxy’s gas supply is its lifeblood, and tracing the gas as it flows in and through a galaxy reveals its…