Category: 7. Science

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it an alien probe? Or is it just an interstellar icy rock mundane? There is no consensus yet.

While some researchers, like Harvard astrophysicist Prof. Avi Loeb, speculate that 3I/ATLAS could be…

Fire, blood and death

These examples are noteworthy because they provide evidence from places where the aurora is seldom seen. But for people living at high latitudes – Iceland, Greenland, northern Scandinavia, Alaska, Canada, and northern…

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has become a major point of interest for astronomers following a series of rapid changes observed in recent weeks. First detected in May 2025, the comet moved steadily towards its…

Chinese scientists…

WASHINGTON — Sierra Space has completed key testing milestones for its Dream Chaser vehicle as the company explores both civil and national security missions for the spaceplane.

The company announced Nov. 13 that the first Dream Chaser…

“West is best” when it comes to Saturn’s moon Iapetus, now visible at western elongation and shining at 10th magnitude.

The recovery of ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost has offered scientists a rare look into the workings of an animal that lived nearly forty thousand years ago. RNA usually breaks down soon after death, which…