Category: Science

Space fascinates us. Rockets, stars, spaceships, NASA… and for all of these, today we bring you news that would bankrupt any company. Fortunately, NASA is not just a company. NASA gives green light to its long-delayed Psyche mission to deep space, valued at $985 millionto explore a metal-rich asteroid, also called Psyche, that could be...

The mystery behind the brightest explosion ever seen has finally been solved. In October of last year, Earth was hit by a burst that became known as the Brightest of All Time, or BOAT. It was recorded by telescopes around the world, and scientists have been struggling to explain it ever since. The explosion was...

For the first time, astronomers have detected a burst of light from the smaller of the two supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the blazar OJ 287. The smaller SMBH’s orbit regularly causes it to cause bursts in the accretion disk of the larger SMBH, and the pair’s dance is attracting attention astronomers for decades, but...

Microscopic creature discovery could be ‘oldest remains’ of human lineage, study says. Scientists have discovered a “lost world” of ancient organisms in billion-year-old rocks from northern Australia that they say could change the world’s understanding of humans’ earliest ancestors. The microscopic creatures, known as the Protosterol Biota, are part of a family of organisms called...

Yes, thalassophobia, or the fear of deep, dark water, has always existed, but we’re here to bring you your newest terror—what lies beneath our feet. According to BBC, in the interior of our planet there are mountains that top the charts, making Everest and other giants like it seem like a blip on the radar...

SpaceX plans to launch two Falcon 9 rockets hours apart from Florida and California. Starlink group 6-3 will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a scheduled launch time of 12:41 a.m. ET (04:41 UTC) and from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the Iridium OneWeb rideshare launch at 6:19 a.m. PT (13:19 UTC). First, SpaceX...

The six-wheeled scientist came across the crater during his latest scientific campaign in search of rock samples that could be brought back to Earth for further study. The Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover recently collected 152 images while peering deep into Belva Crater, a large impact crater inside the much larger Jesero Crater. Woven...

A research group led by Professor Minoru Osada (he, him) and postdoctoral researcher Yue Shi (she, her) at the Institute for Future Materials and Systems (IMaSS), Nagoya University in Japan, has developed a new technology to produce nanosheets, thin films of two-dimensional materials several nanometers thick in about one minute. This technology enables the formation...

The Cassini spacecraft passes through jets emanating from Saturn’s moon Enceladus (artist’s impression).Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spewing out a huge plume of water vapor far larger than any seen there before. This huge cloud may contain the chemical ingredients of life that have escaped from beneath...

SpaceX plans to launch two Falcon 9 rockets hours apart from Florida and California. Starlink group 6-3 will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a scheduled launch time of 12:41 a.m. ET (04:41 UTC) and from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the Iridium OneWeb rideshare launch at 6:19 a.m. PT (13:19 UTC). First, SpaceX...