Category: 7. Science

Virginia scientists confirmed the first officially recorded stone crabs in Chesapeake Bay this summer. Four adult males turned up near Norfolk’s Willoughby Spit and now sit in tanks at VIMS in Gloucester Point.

Their arrival lines up with a Bay…

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin of Brazil.

Jupiter was shaping Earth’s fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its building blocks from plunging into the sun, a new study finds.

Led by scientists at Rice University in Houston, the study…

The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasilunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type asteroid detected in August solely by its brightness, thanks to the Hawaiian Pan-STARRS 1 telescope.

After analyzing its trajectory, scientists…

The Chinese company Landscape continues to develop the Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3), a two-stage reasuable launch vehicle inspired by SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy. They achieved their first milestone in January 2024 with a vertical takeoff and…

In a new study, a team of geologists and biologists led by the University of Colorado at Boulder resurrected ancient microbes that had been trapped in ice — in some cases for around 40,000…

An interstellar comet is dramatically jetting off ice and dust into space, a new image shows.

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is sending out a jet of material towards the sun as our nearest star warms up some of its surface. The composite image shows…

Changes to the climate that result in more extreme weather events, such as drought and hail, along with increased temperatures across the globe, all contribute to the challenges farmers now face in growing crops.

According to a report from Cornell…