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Oxygen levels are dropping in rivers across the US...
Rivers in the US and central Europe are losing their ability to hold oxygen because of rising temper...
Hubble Space Telescope discovers 11-billion-year-o...
Astronomers have detected an 11-billion-year-old galaxy using the light it absorbs rather than the l...
A 'Planet Nine' far from Earth could explain the o...
As the search for "Planet Nine" in the outer solar system continues, new research suggests there may...
MDMA therapy for PTSD expected to get US approval ...
US regulators could soon authorise MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder af...
Humanity's current space behavior 'unsustainable,'...
Greater efforts are needed to make valuable orbits sustainable, according to a new report from the E...
Virgin Galactic to launch next space tourist missi...
Virgin Galactic plans to launch 'Galactic 04,' its fifth spaceflight in the last five months, on Oct...
Watch China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts clean the Tia...
China's Shenzhou 16 astronauts have been working hard to keep the Tiangong space station neat and cl...
NASA UAP study team finds no extraterrestrial orig...
NASA's UFO study team released its long-awaited first report on Thursday (Sept. 14), arguing that a ...
The other astronauts in 'A Million Miles Away' rea...
They may not be the focus of 'A Million Miles Away,' but the crewmates who flew with José Hernández ...
This was the hottest summer ever recorded on Earth...
Earth just had its hottest summer in recorded history, data released Wednesday (Sept. 6) by the Worl...
Luna-25 failure won't be end of Russia's moon prog...
Russia will continue its lunar exploration efforts despite the recent loss of its Luna-25 moon lande...
Astronomers weigh ancient galaxies' dark matter ha...
Astronomers have weighed the halos of dark matter that surround ancient galaxies with profound impli...
September's new moon points the way to Mars, Jupit...
September's new moon rises tonight (Sept. 14). Here's what you can expect to see in the night sky ar...
City-wide quantum communication network in China i...
A network that connects quantum devices and a central server that spans Hefei, China can allow multi...
'Lightning' on Venus is actually meteors burning u...
Tiny meteors burning up in Venus' atmosphere cause light flashes that have long been interpreted as ...
Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a...
A combination of keen senses and quick reflexes may help mosquitoes avoid a sticky end by riding the...
Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixe...
Between 2010 and 2021, the proportion of drug overdose deaths in the US involving a combination of f...
'It's been an incredible challenge:' NASA astronau...
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spoke from the International Space Station about how it felt to surpass t...
Frogs have been trying to mate with odd things for...
Male frogs will sometimes try to mate with turtles or inanimate objects, and now there is evidence t...
Scientists may finally know why the sun's outer at...
Our host star's corona is hotter than its 'surface.' It's unclear as to why.
James Webb Space Telescope watches seasons change ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have observed the changing of seasons on Saturn. T...
Einstein cross! Gravitationally lensed 'flower' sp...
A new image from the European Southern Observatory captures a cosmic wildflower in space.
Vladimir Putin meets North Korea's Kim Jong-un at ...
Vladimir Putin met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a Russian spaceport on Wednesday (Sept. 1...
Moderna's improved mRNA covid-19 vaccine is effect...
A streamlined version of Moderna’s vaccine that targets only key parts of the spike protein of the S...
Humans use a quarter of all the biomass created by...
To stay within safe planetary boundaries, humans should only use around 10 per cent of the biomass p...
Stone Age carvings of animal footprints identified...
Animal footprints carved into rock thousands of years ago depict over 40 species, a trio of trackers...
'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over a...
Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba...
Devastation wrought by Medicane Daniel revealed in...
Satellite images reveal the scale of destruction wrought by medicane Daniel on Libya, where temporar...
7 places in the US Southwest to see rare 'edge eff...
Where and when to see rare edge effects like Baily's beads during the annular solar eclipse on Oct. ...
Axiom Space names Ax-3 astronaut crew for SpaceX m...
Former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría will once again head an Axiom Space mission on Ax-3. Joi...
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With just a few weeks to go, now is the time to grab your tickets to the world’s greatest festival o...
How soap operas can help us understand special rel...
Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps avid fans to no...
Reusable rocket built by students is about to laun...
The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will attempt to launch it...
China sends record-setting Tianzhou 5 cargo spacec...
Tianzhou 5, which docked with China's Tiangong space station just two hours after launching last Nov...
Superglue alternative made from soya is strong but...
Most adhesives are made from fossil fuels and take thousands of years to biodegrade, but a new alter...
Russia rolls Soyuz rocket to the pad ahead of Sept...
Photos captured the journey of Russia's Soyuz rocket to the launchpad ahead of the MS-24 launch of a...
DNA-based computer can run 100 billion different p...
Mixing and matching various strands of DNA can create versatile biological computer circuits that ca...
'For All Mankind' need recruits for Mars in 4th se...
Ed Baldwin wants you for Mars. The Apollo astronaut-turned-commander of a private mission to the Red...
NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping probe captures 1st sn...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft just sent home an impressive glimpse of the smallest asteroid target on its 1...
