Category: 7. Science

As stars age, they expand. That’s bad news for planets orbiting close to their stars, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society this month. The study suggests that planets closest to…

Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already proven they could handle spaceflight. Fruit flies travelled aboard a V-2 rocket in 1947, becoming the first animals to reach space and survive the journey. Since then, countless…

Is empathy a lost art? The final two full moons of the year might have something to say about that. Both are supermoons, appearing larger and brighter as they make their closest approach to Earth. In astrology, the moon is in charge of our…

The European Space Agency has launched a new program that could have astronauts survive on a protein powder made from “thin air” and urine during long missions, the agency said in a press release.

The pilot program aims to test the possibility…

Imagine controlling the movement of individual molecules with light, slowing them to near absolute zero—a new breakthrough from the Fritz Haber Institute is making that vision a reality. Researchers have, for the first time, successfully…

A new study suggests that giant planets orbiting close to Sun-like stars rarely survive their host’s aging process. As stars evolve and begin to swell, these nearby worlds often vanish, drawn inward and destroyed by intense tidal forces.

The…