Category: 7. Science

NASA is preparing for the launch of Sentinel-6B, the newest satellite in an international mission designed to deliver vital measurements of global sea levels and ocean conditions. The spacecraft is scheduled to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon…

[By Dr. Wendy N. Whitman Cobb]

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully made its way to orbit for the second time on Nov. 13, 2025. Although the second launch is never as flashy as the first, this mission is still significant…

An aerial drone photo taken on October 28, 2025 shows a view of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) in Daocheng county, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. Photo: Xinhua

A joint team of Chinese and…

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until researchers identified it as an impact structure.

Only about 200 confirmed impact craters exist worldwide, making each…

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman has shared some striking photos showing a Russian cosmonaut during a spacewalk.

One of the images (above) shows Alexey Zubritsky performing what is a mundane task on Earth but something altogether more…

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, expensive, mission-critical equipment. Unfortunately, though,…

In March of 2024 the DESI collaboration dropped a bombshell on the cosmological community: slim but significant evidence that dark energy might be getting weaker with time. This was a stunning result delivered after years of painstaking…

Archaeologists working in Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan report that people were cutting wild barley with stone blades and sickles about 9,200 years ago. The find expands where the first barley grain harvesting happened, and it centers on a…