Category: Science

A new study casts more doubt on the supposed success of an interstellar fishing expedition. On Jan. 8, 2014, a space rock about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) wide exploded over the western  Pacific Ocean. In 2019, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleague Amir Siraj determined that the intruder came from outside our solar system,...

Astronomers are running regular checks on a star system that currently requires a telescope to see because they expect it will soon be bright enough to view with the naked eye. According to one prediction, this could happen any time from now until September, although there’s reason to think we might need to wait another...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made groundbreaking discoveries in galaxy GN-z11, which is one of the most distant and luminous galaxies known. They identified a supermassive black hole responsible for the galaxy’s brightness and found a pristine gas clump that may lead to the discovery of the universe’s first stars, providing significant...

Colleagues of an astronaut who teaches at a UK university said it was an “amazing honour” to see him on board the International Space Station (ISS). American Dr Mike Barratt, pilot of the Crew-8 mission, teaches space medicine at the University of Exeter. “We couldn’t ask for more, the university is incredibly proud,” said colleague,...

A Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying three astronauts heading to China’s orbital space station lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia on October 26, 2023. China’s space agency has revealed the names of the spacecraft that it hopes will take Chinese astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade....

Fresh aurora pictures from a NASA astronaut is making us green with envy. Earlier this month, International Space Station astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli captured absolutely stunning pictures of a flag-like green aurora stretching from the southern regions of the Earth far up into space. “The auroras from up here are spectacular,” NASA’s Moghbeli told Space.com during...

Almost everyday, the number of confirmed exoplanet discoveries grows. The majority of those planets, which sit just above 5,500 in total, have been identified by the Kepler space telescope. But for the last few years, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been steadily adding new alien worlds to our growing planetary catalog of the...

Last week astronauts dropped a toolbag while repairing external parts of the International Space Station (ISS). As we reported, the bag has been picked by trackers of space junk under the code 58229/1998-067WC, and its orbit calculated. It turns out there is more to the story, however, because you don’t need a high-powered telescope to...

Photos of the animal show glowing eyes and yellow-green fingertips as these parts were grown out of the fluorescent stem cells. However, the green tags were seen widely including in the brain, kidneys, liver and gonads. The gonadal presence of the donated fluorescent green cells indicated the chimeric primate may be able to pass on...

Back in 1879, botanist William J. Beal began one of the world’s oldest science experiments, burying 20 glass pint bottles filled with 50 seeds in sand. One hundred and forty-four years later, scientists at the same university have continued his work, resurrecting those seeds and finding among them a hybrid plant, likely not meant to...