Category: 7. Science

For decades, scientists have tried to understand how the Sun’s corona (outer atmosphere) gets so blisteringly hot while its surface stays relatively balmy – and now a new study has delivered a big clue.

An international team of scientists…

For years, astronomers have believed that water-rich planets could only form beyond a system’s “snow line,” the region where icy materials condense during planet formation. Yet a recent Nature study challenges this foundation, showing…

astronaut: Someone trained to travel into space for research and exploration.

bacteria: (singular: bacterium) Single-celled organisms. These dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside other living organisms…

Lichens could serve as indicators for finding dinosaur fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.

Scientists have found that specific, vibrant orange-colored lichen species act as natural indicators of exposed dinosaur fossils,…

NASA is under growing scrutiny from…

A large comet called 3I/ATLAS, first spotted this summer, has shown signs of speeding up in a way not caused by gravity and appeared to turn blue as it passed close to the Sun, said scientists.

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University said…

Glasgow, United Kingdom (NewsVoir)

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate…

Sometimes space exploration doesn’t go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might not have…