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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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New Winged Robot Can Fly and Swim Like a Puffin

A Sweet Surprise: Scientists Find Sugar Deep in Our Galaxy

Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

Earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’

A 550-million-year-old fossil may represent the earliest animal with a head and the first evidence of right-handedness in the animal kingdom.

Spread of Seafloor Directly Observed for the First Time

Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera

New images from the Hayabusa-2 probe confirm that asteroid Torifune is a contact binary, a two-part structure resembling conjoined space rocks.

China's Spacecraft Snaps First-Ever Close-Up Image Of Earth's Rare 'Minimoon'

China's Tianwen-2 space probe has captured the first-ever close-up images of Kamoʻoalewa, a rare quasi-moon orbiting Earth.

NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon

NASA is considering deploying a spare, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon to support future lunar base preparations.

NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission

NASA launches daring rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from falling to Earth

Fruit Fly Sperm Are Giant. How Do They Stay Untangled?