New research based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has revealed that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is actively disrupting its smaller galactic neighbor, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This finding not only sheds…
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist.
The event in question—a sudden brightening from a star about 12,000 light-years away—was…
Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, an extraordinary discovery has been made. Microbes – alive and thriving – have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock.
This finding pushes the boundaries of our understanding of…
A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his student unearthed what could be one of the oldest known examples of a gemstone-quality ammonite fossil.
Precisely four years from today — on Friday, April 13, 2029 — an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is wide will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a very rare event. Apophis will not impact…
A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from which every living organism on Earth…
One of the oldest-known meteor showers is set to kick off this week and deliver a night sky show through the end of this month.
The Lyrid meteor shower is visible from roughly April 16 to April 26. It will peak in the pre-dawn hours of April 22…
SAN ANTONIO – As April’s full moon rose on Saturday night, several KSAT viewers…
Every year, millions of people discard their old electronic devices without realizing they’re throwing away something valuable—22-carat gold. Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed an eco-friendly technique to recover this…
A high school student working with Caltech researchers has developed a powerful AI-based model that revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, dramatically expanding the scientific utility of NASA’s retired NEOWISE telescope….