Category: 7. Science

Tonight, the Moon looks slightly slimmer again as it approaches the Third Quarter. Its illuminated section is fading even more, meaning each night there’s less for us to see.

What is…

Just as the mythological Icarus melted his feathers and wax wings when he flew too close to the sun,…

Venus has long been known as Earth’s evil twin. While they both are roughly the same size and formed in the same inner region of the solar system, Venus is far less hospitable to life as we know it. Its surface temperatures can reach over…

Astronomers have spent decades hunting for dark matter by looking for light that isn’t there — and that strategy has mostly failed. 

Now, a team of researchers has tried something radically different. Instead of searching the sky, they…

The icy moon Europa transits Jupiter tonight, followed by its shadow. Now past opposition, moons and their shadows are well separated.

Beneath Earth’s surface lies a kingdom of undiscovered microscopic life. These “intraterrestrials” survive in some of the harshest conditions on the planet — and scientists are hunting for these microbes.

In this excerpt from “

BEIJING – For the…

It almost sounds like a sci-fi movie. But scientists say something like this could really happen to Earth, just not for billions of years. Astronomers have spotted a bizarre strip of iron stretching across the Ring Nebula, like a cosmic bar…

On a cold day in February, an Augustinian friar described his experiments breeding garden-variety…