Category: 7. Science

SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites, like last time.

Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built —…

In 2024, a major new sauropod dinosaur track site was uncovered at Dewars Farm Quarry, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. This year, paleontologists from the University of Oxford, the University of Birmingham, Liverpool John Moores…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted an object, named the Infinity Galaxy, that turns a basic rule of galaxy evolution on its head – a likely direct collapse black hole.

These objects form directly from the collapse of a…

UNC Research Stories sat down with Pedro Sáenz, associate professor in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences’ math department, to learn more about his work at the Physical Mathematics Lab and why student research experiences matter.

What’s the…

Exploring the possibility of the survival of life under extraterrestrial conditions is an important goal of astrobiology. In a new study, scientists used baker’s yeast, a powerful model organism, to assess the impact of Mars-like conditions;…

Comet 3I/Atlas continues to be full of surprises. As well as being only the third interstellar object ever detected, new analysis shows it is producing hydroxyl (OH) emissions, with these compounds betraying the presence of water on its surface….

We all want Earth to come to Earth’s rescue, revealing some long-dormant process that will undo our one-time mistake called the Industrial Revolution. We want it so much that stories of carbon sequestration, especially in the ocean, almost always…