Category: 7. Science

SpaceX successfully sent another batch of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday (Feb. 7), just five days after standing down in the wake of an anomaly during its prior launch.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 25 Starlink satellites…

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.

The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led to new…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.

Imagine if it had been…

by Riko Seibo

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026

The shimmering curtains of the aurora form when energetic electrons plunge into Earths upper atmosphere and collide with atoms and molecules, releasing light across the polar skies. For…

by Sophie Jenkins

London, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2026

Our Milky Way galaxy may not host a supermassive black hole at its center but instead an enormous concentration of dark matter that exerts an equivalent gravitational influence on…

by Jim Shelton

New Haven CT (SPX) Feb 08, 2026

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations…

by Erica Marchand

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2026

Around 14 hours before a partial solar eclipse crossed the Dolomites in northern Italy, a cluster of spruce trees showed a sharp, synchronized rise in electrical activity. A new…

by Lonnie Shekhtman

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2026

In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA’s…

A small stone long dismissed as an ordinary Ice Age tool has been shown to contain the oldest known blue pigment ever documented in Europe.

The discovery pushes the use of blue thousands of years earlier than expected and reshapes how…