Category: 9. Sci-Tech

The European Space Agency (ESA) is setting the long-term goal of sending a spacecraft to Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus to answer key science questions and drive the development of new technologies.

Enceladus is one of the most intriguing moons in…

Back in 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected major ripples in spacetime.

While astronomers generally agree that the event, dubbed GW190521, was the result of two black holes colliding, a team of researchers at…

In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and ice, warmth and chill, life and lifelessness. But a new study from UC Riverside suggests that this delicate equilibrium might be more…

This week, some saucy leopard sharks have been caught having a “threesome” in a world-first sighting, NASA has proposed blowing up an asteroid to prevent it from hitting the Moon, and fossils of hybrid mammoths suggest interbreeding was…

Dr. Steven Austad, the scientific director of a nonprofit researching healthy aging, never fretted too deeply about his own longevity.

“I used to train lions for a living,” Austad told Business Insider. “It was not…

A Spanish fossil has shifted the origin story of some of Earth’s most formidable hunters. A new paper reexamines Camarillasaurus cirugedae, found near the village of Camarillas in Teruel, Spain, and places it among the spinosaurids, the same…

NASA’s Hubble Space…