Category: 7. Science

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

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

University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax and his colleagues have identified a new genus and species of leptonectid ichthyosaur from a fossilized specimen found in Dorset, England.

The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis of fossils belonging to two mammaliamorph species: (i) Polistodon chuannanensis, a Middle Jurassic herbivorous tritylodontid with a…

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cells…

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred to as a cosmological constant, dark energy is…

Venus, our neighbor, has long teased astronomers by being the brightest planet in our night sky. That curiosity about what hides behind its twinkle prompted NASA scientists to send the Pioneer Venus Large Probe diving through the planet’s…

Ground-based telescopes have a fundamental problem that no amount of engineering can fix. They’re trying to observe the universe through Earth’s atmosphere, a constantly moving blanket of air that distorts and blurs incoming light. It’s…

Mars wasn’t always the bone-dry world we see today. A new study reveals the Red Planet experienced a series of ice ages, much like Earth, but with a twist.

Instead of regaining water with each cycle, Mars steadily lost it. And now, clues…