Category: 7. Science

When we picture the open Pacific, we imagine endless blue water and not much else. Marine researchers, however, are now seeing something very different: places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where plastic waste has built a kind of…

Two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut floated through a hatch into the International Space Station on Thursday, beginning an eight-month stay after arriving on a Russian spacecraft that launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…

We absolutely love this Walmart HQinX Astronaut Star Projector, and not just because it’s down to $12 in Walmart’s Black Friday sale. These astronaut star projectors come in many varieties, but someone has decided this particular interstellar…

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New computer models now tie these deep structures to slow chemical leaks between the core and mantle that may have helped Earth…