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So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?
Science word of the day: Cenozoic. Pronunciation: See-noh-ZOH'-ihk. What it means: The ascendency of mammals, the birth of the Himalayas,...
The frozen crust of Europa may be thicker than scientists hoped, potentially making any mission to reach the hidden ocean beneath even more challenging than...
УНН Society ✎ The peak activity of the Delta Aquariid meteor shower in 2026 falls on the night of July 30-31. Due to the nearly full Moon, observations will...
Science News: Bats rely on echolocation to move through the dark and hunt insects. They send out high-pitched sound waves that bounce off nearby objects and...
Here's how to avoid counterfeit and unsafe eclipse glasses and ensure you buy safe products for the Aug. 12 eclipse in Europe and North America.
An aging star has far more lithium than it should. Astronomers say the likeliest reason is that TOI-5882 swallowed one of its own planets, though they call...
Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own.
The best places to launch rockets from and why some places on Earth are better for rocket launches than others. Rocket science explained.
Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country.
Peking University team led by Yi Chengqi and East China Normal University develop ContactSeek using AlphaFold3 contact probability to identify key amino...
For tens of millions of years, Earth's climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea level, ocean oxygen, phosphate, and carbon burial.
The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA scientists grabbed art supplies from a local shop and...
A neutrino detector buried deep in Antarctic ice is catching ghost particles that pass straight through Earth, revealing violent cosmic events invisible to...
It sounds like a storage code, not a place. The star it circles is better known to catalogues than to the public, and the planet itself has never been...
July's full Moon, know as the Buck Moon, is set to light up the night sky next week.
Near the centre of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years from Earth, a young blue star repeatedly performs what looks like an impossible turn.
Astronauts spend months training for launch and a year adjusting to weightlessness, but nothing prepares them for the moment gravity becomes their enemy...
The real story behind "Jaws" is stranger than fiction. Here's the shark encounter that inspired Peter Benchley's famous novel.
A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites running low on fuel thousands...