SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS

Daily Marvels in Scientific Exploration

Astronomers have puzzled for 88 years about how a pair of binary stars have continued to erupt over the course of a century, but it seems the mystery has finally been solved. The double star system

The new result is the fruit of several years worth of scientific labor. Prior research by Anshu and others got part of the way there. Those researchers developed an algorithm that could deduce a syst

Last night (April 30), the sun released an extremely powerful solar flare triggering widespread radio blackouts across the Pacific region. The flare peaked at 7:46 p.m. EDT (2346 GMT) and ended short

Scientists have predicted when humankind will witness the "triple whammy extinction" event that will wipe out humans and what will cause it. Experts have warned humanity for years about the impact o

Though we cannot see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny packets of energy, and the atoms that constitute matter are similarly divided into d

Post apocalypse. Sole survivor in tatters and gas mask on the ruins of the destroyed city getty Earth is a very rare jewel of a planet. A completely serendipitous chance encounter with a Mars-sized

Few space images are as iconic as those of the Horsehead Nebula. Its shape makes it instantly recognizable. Over the decades, a number of telescopes have captured its image, turning it into a sort of

All necks will be craned toward the heavens next year when NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket blasts the Artemis 2 mission toward the moon. Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the

WASHINGTON Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur or any extinct animal based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelli

Chinese scientists took a big step forward for worldwide space exploration this week, publishing the worlds first complete geologic atlas of the Moon. The atlas set provides high-definition basic ma