Category: 7. Science

Marine microbes, like bacteria and phytoplankton, form the foundation of the ocean’s food web, providing sustenance for a whole host of marine creatures – from tiny…

NASA has selected three new scientific investigations that will help deepen understanding of the Moon’s surface, interior, and radiation environment

These three Artemis payloads will…

Look toward the southwestern horizon at sunset on Jan. 22 to witness the slender crescent moon cozy up to the gas giant Saturn beneath the stars of the constellation Pisces.

The moon‘s 22%-lit disk will appear roughly 30 degrees above the…

If humans are ever going to expand into space itself, it will have to be for a reason. Optimists think that reason is simply due to our love of exploration itself. But in history, it is more often a profit motive that has led humans to…

Two of the universe’s most mysterious particles may be colliding invisibly throughout the cosmos — a discovery that could solve one of the biggest lingering problems in our standard model of cosmology.

Those two elusive components — dark…

A gas giant planet beyond the solar that wobbles as it circles its star, hinting to astronomers that it is orbited by its own moon. To make this suspected discovery even more remarkable, if this moon exists it would be absolutely massive,…

A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s accessibility and patterns for the cutting edge of atomic physics. This table could help physicists that are looking to…

Researchers at Maynooth University have been exploring one of nature’s and astronomy’s major conundrums and they are much closer to the answer.

A team of researchers at Maynooth University (MU) have been…