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NASA Is Selecting Future Astronauts. Here’s How to Apply.

Did These Scientists Find Evidence of Blood in a Dinosaur Bone?

A NASA Telescope Is Predicted to Crash Back to Earth Within Hours

Neanderthals Used Wood for Tools, Housing

Martian meteorite found in the Sahara is 4.1 billion years old

After Flying Past the Moon, an Artemis II Astronaut Lands in California

A New Dwarf Planet (Probably) Spotted Beyond Pluto

Dinosaur skeleton goes to auction in New York with £4.5m price tag

Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail

What Happened to the Neanderthals?

Neutrinos Are Everywhere. A Physicist Explains.

A Japanese Spacecraft Aims to Bring Back a Bit of a Martian Moon

How to see the Orionid meteor shower 2026 peak this week

What Can Four-Winged Dinosaurs Teach Us About Birds?

The leap second is on the chopping block

Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They’re Out There.

28 Miles and Counting: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record

Jonathan the Giant Tortoise Is 194 Years Old. He Just Had His Genome Sequenced.

In Vienna and Beijing, the First Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting ‘ghostly’ cosmic particles

Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon

Radio Waves Coming From an Alien Planet May Be a Cosmic First

This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won’t Let Go of It

Will SpaceX's Starship finally make it to orbit? We're about to find out

At 145 Degrees, This Amoeba Manages to Keep Its Cool

What a Massive New Crater Means for Future Moon Bases

In Old NASA Data, Scientists Find a Surprising New Type of Cosmic Object

T. Rex, King of the Dinosaurs, Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees

A T. Rex Walked Here: Teacher Finds Rare Footprints in North Dakota

Feather Preserved in Dinosaur Dung Could Explain Why Birds Survived Mass Extinction

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’

Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek

The World’s First Bugs Had Way More Legs

Scientists Find More Than 1,000 DNA Variants Linked to Personality Traits

Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange

An unexpected signal reported on Sept 1 may be the first direct hint of dark matter, sparking worldwide scientific scrutiny.

This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like

Narwhals Have Stunning Spiraled Tusks. That’s Not the Only Twist.

Near-Total Lunar Eclipse Will Turn Moon Blood Red

Why NASA is adding the Nancy Grace Roman telescope to its fleet

NASA’s Attempt to Save the Swift Telescope Has Failed

Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a

Mike Fincke, Astronaut Who Spent 549 Days in Space, Has Retired

The MOTHRA Telescope Captured the Faint Aftermath of a Star’s Death

Telescope Spots Two Black Holes on the Cusp of Merging

How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle

A solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower arrive on the same day

A Four-Ton SpaceX Rocket Stage Hit the Moon, but No One Saw It

Darwin proposed that a type of plant was carnivorous. Scientists finally proved him right

Scientific research confirms a 150-year-old hypothesis by Charles Darwin that a specific mountain plant is actually carnivorous.

Here's Where You Want To Be To See The 2026 Solar Eclipse

Don’t Miss Aug. 12 Solar Eclipse And Perseid Peak

Discarded SpaceX rocket is on high-speed collision course with the moon

A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week

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Mission to Save Falling NASA Space Telescope Suffers Setback

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Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in the Human Body?

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Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading

Researchers have identified a rare form of transmissible skin cancer affecting freshwater fish across Canada and the U.S.

Rudolph Marcus, Who Illuminated Electrochemical Processes, Dies at 102

Nobel laureate and Caltech professor Rudolph Marcus has died at age 102, leaving a legacy of illumination in electrochemical processes.

Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered

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Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable

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