Category: 7. Science

Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases — purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine and uracil) — pointing to a cosmic origin for…

A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have come from an unexpected source.

Just a few seconds earlier, from the same tiny corner of the sky, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA had detected the telltale

The joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission XRISM has spotted a monster black hole awakening in a distant “starburst” galaxy.

The research is revolutionary to black hole science, because it represents the first…

Water drawn through the hollow stem of a living Equisetum plant, horsetail, has registered the most extreme oxygen isotope signature ever measured in any terrestrial material.

That discovery stretches the known chemical limits of Earth’s water…

A bright pink insect in a green rainforest seems impossible to hide. Anyone walking through the forest might expect such an insect to stand out immediately.

Yet scientists recently discovered that this unusual color may actually help the insect…

When a black hole and a neutron star spiral toward collision, theory predicts that their orbit should become almost perfectly circular before the final impact.

Gravitational waves steadily drain energy from the system, tightening the orbit and…

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of blue-green eggs. Yet…

A University of Oxford-led study has identified a new type of exoplanet with sulfur-rich magma oceans located about 35 light-years from our solar system.

Typically, planets are classified as small, rocky worlds or large gas giants. L 98-59 d…

The intricate, beautiful designs of origami are amazing — especially if paper airplanes are the extent of your folding skills. 

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