Category: 7. Science

NASA’s newest airborne sensor is taking mineral exploration to stratospheric heights, literally.

Called AVIRIS-5, the advanced imaging spectrometer has begun sweeping the American West from 60,000 feet above the ground, mapping lithium-rich rocks…

Regular black holes represent a crucial step towards resolving the problematic singularities at the heart of standard black hole theory, and Vinayak Joshi from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, along with Ashok B. Joshi from the…

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated,…

Late last month, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tracked 3I/ATLAS when it was approximately 178 million miles away from Earth. Hubble’s instruments recorded the moving comet as a luminous point while the background stars appeared as streaks of…

The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The supernova was accompanied by a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB),…

An incredibly luminous star system that has long baffled astronomers could soon light up the sky with the nuclear brilliance of thousands of suns, new research suggests. When that happens, the results may be visible from Earth with the naked eye…

Dec. 9 (UPI) — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky safely touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after departing the International Space Station.

The trio returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-27…

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD today announced the appointment of Gerald M. Wilson, PhD, as Chair of the School’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, effective December 15, 2025….

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Founded in 2017 in Golden, Colorado, Lunar Outpost has rapidly evolved from a commercial lunar mobility startup to a key player in NASA’s Artemis program. On December 4, 2025, the company announced its selection for the Artemis IV…