Category: 7. Science

Fears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to have been misplaced, according to new observations.

Discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 was briefly considered the “most dangerous asteroid”…

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Why do rodents chew on almost everything around them? At first, this behavior looks simple. A mouse or squirrel gnaws on wood or hard objects to keep its teeth short.

However, new research from the University of Michigan shows that chewing is…

Scientists analyzing images from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have found the first visual evidence that small asteroids exchange rocks and dust in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of…

The NASA Artemis 2 moon mission is currently on hold. The huge launch rocket has been transported back to its hangar so the liquid hydrogen fuel leaks discovered on the launch pad can be investigated. Unfortunately, this looks like setting the…

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Electron movement and structures described in quantum physics allow researchers to better understand how and why materials like superconductors behave as they do. Rice University researchers Jianwei Huang and Ming Yi have developed a…

Astronomers studying the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS have discovered the comet is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars.

Using the powerful radio antennas of the…