Category: 7. Science

An international network of observatories has issued version 4.0 of its catalog, listing 128 new black hole merger candidates detected during the first phase of the fourth observing run, O4a.

This update expands the list of black hole and neutron…

Space is tough, but so are the tiny microbes that inhabit human bodies. According to a new study, some of these microbes that are crucial to human health, like Bacillus subtilis, are proving to be strong enough to make it to Mars and back.

For…

Earth may respond to the huge quantities of carbon dioxide (CO₂) that humans are pumping into the atmosphere by “overcorrecting” the imbalance, which could result in the next ice age arriving on time instead of being delayed by tens of thousands…

Scientists have found that we may have been wrong about how the Moon’s largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature, the more than…

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long considered speculative, finally has been…