Category: 7. Science

A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 11, 2025. (Photo by Guo Jinqi/Xinhua)

 
China’s space agency…

A team of astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an extensive galaxy evolution survey that found a galaxy’s ‘neighbourhood’ plays a major role in how it changes…

Engineers traced the problem to a manufacturing defect in an insulator on the solid rocket motor, and telemetry data from all four boosters on the following flight in August exhibited “spot-on” performance, according to…

Known as America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin produces the most cheese of any state and trails only California in the…

The Moon gets hit constantly. Without an atmosphere to burn up incoming debris, meteoroids strike the surface directly at hypersonic speeds, creating brief but intense flashes of light visible from Earth. These impacts, called transient…

The Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation, a fundamental link between a galaxy’s mass and its rotation speed, has long been considered a cornerstone of galactic astronomy. Stuart Marongwe from the University of Botswana and Stuart Kauffman from the…

Saturn’s moon Mimas looks like the Death Star, a 400 km wide sphere covered with craters, including one massive impact basin. It appears completely dead. Yet the moon wobbles slightly as it orbits, betraying a secret, liquid water…

Scientists are connecting the dots between stress and hair loss, including a common condition that causes hair to fall out in large patches.

High stress weighs heavily on the body — it can impact sleep, make the heart pound, and cause pains and…

There’s some spaceflight action on tap on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), but you’ll have to get up pretty early to catch it.

A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch from the…