Weekly recaps

It was a good week for Earth science as a team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. discovered a giant groundwater system in sediments below a section of Antarctic ice. Mapping it, they suggest, ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as a team of researchers from several institutions in Australia and one in France showed that honeybees, along with humans, are the only known animals that can tell the difference ...

It was a good week for space science as University of California planetary scientist Stephen Kane, found that Venus's atmosphere explains why the planet rotates so slowly. Without it, he notes, the planet would likely have ...

It was a good week for space science as a team with members from the U.S. and Taipa, Macau, discovered a 4-billion-year-old relic from the early solar system heading our way, although the comet, with a diameter of 130 meters, ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers detected a galactic space laser. The powerful radio wave, known more technically as a "megamaser," was spotted using the MeerKAT telescope in South ...

It was a good week for space science as a team at India's Tata Institute of Fundamental Research's International Centre for Theoretical Studies set constraints on compact dark matter from gravitational wave microlensing, ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers revealed the best image yet of a mysterious radio circle in space. Theories about the nature of these objects range from the throats of wormholes ...

It was a good week for space science as a collaborative at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin found evidence of massive bubbles at the center of the Milky Way caused by a supermassive black hole. Also, ...

It was a good week for space science as a team of astronomers at Northwestern University may have detected the afterglow from a kilonova, a merger of two neutron stars, setting off a blast 1,000 times brighter than a classical ...

It was a good week for space science, as an international team found two colossal black holes locked in dance at the heart of a galaxy. Initial data suggests they orbit around each other every two years. Also, another international ...

It was a good week for space science as astronomer Bill Gray, creator of The Guide, an astrometry software package, announced that he had been wrong in claiming that a rocket on course to crash into the moon was made by SpaceX. ...

It was a good week for chemistry research as a team of engineers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed a catalyst that can turn carbon dioxide into gasoline 1,000 times more efficiently ...