Category: 7. Science

For over half a century, scientists have struggled to answer Fermi’s time-honored question: “Where is Everybody?” Answering this question is extremely difficult, partly because of the data-poor nature of the Search for Extraterrestrial…

Imagine looking up at the night sky and knowing that somewhere among those distant pinpoints of light, another world might hold the conditions for life,…

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The first episode of “Future Kid Takara,” a new series of anime shorts, opens with the thrilling scene of a boy named Takara and a scientist named Dr. Amory…

WASHINGTON — Japan launched the first of a new generation of cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, with potential applications beyond low Earth orbit.

An H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m….

Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday (Oct. 25).

The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9 a.m…

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former planets. This star, about the size of Earth but…