Category: Big Questions - Page 60

Today, Nature published the landmark discovery of a system of seven planets around a star named TRAPPIST-1 about 40 light years away. This…

Galaxies come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Many galaxies are in the shape of spirals, including our own Milky Way Galaxy. The movement…

Genes are bundles of DNA that exist in your cells that affect how you look, grow, and age. Since the human genome was fully decoded…

Stars and planets are most often categorized by their mass. In astronomy, the “initial mass function” is used for this categorization.…

Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?

Detecting life on a planet beyond Earth would be one of the coolest things ever! In our paper, we talk about detecting signs of life on…

Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…

Have you ever tried to hang your coat over the corner of table? Unless it snags, it seems to always fall off. This question inspired two…

A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…

Tabby’s Star, located 1,276 light years from Earth and named for its discoverer Tabetha S. Boyajian, created quite a buzz among…