Category: 7. Science

A team of astronomers at the Keck Observatory has observed what may be the birth of new planets within the disk of a distant young star named HD 34282. Located about 400 light-years away, this recently formed star…

Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light, or photons, rather than electricity to power storage and calculations. These light-based computers have the potential to be more energy efficient than traditional computers…

A NASA satellite has helped scientists trace the main power source of a weird, switching pulsar named J1023 to a fast, particle packed wind smashing into nearby gas.

The crucial clue is that X-ray light and optical light line up in the same…

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called “red giant” phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than previously suspected. What does this tell us…

Bio-tar and biochar may sound similar, but the first is a toxic byproduct and the second is a next-generation fertilizer.

In a groundbreaking study, a team of researchers developed a way to turn that tar into char, according to Interesting…

Nov. 7 (UPI) — Saturn’s Enceladus moon might be capable of supporting life, according to data collected by NASA’s Cassini mission and compiled in a new study in the Science Advances journal.

The moon is one of the most promising for supporting…

Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to captivate the public. The comet is only the third known interstellar visitor to our solar system, and has been repeatedly surprising astronomers as it flies through our cosmic neighborhood.

3I/ATLAS was first…

Finding a fingerprint on the casing of a fired bullet was once a nearly impossible task. But scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough.

Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland have now shown they can recover human fingerprints from…

Songbirds like parrots and parakeets might be well known for squeaking out embarrassing one-liners and certain four-letter words, but those aren’t the only sounds they can mimic. Birds have been observed copying dog barks, car alarms, and even