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The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced a second stage failure following Saturday’s NASA astronaut mission, leading to the rocket…

Drone footage of a gray whale captured off the coast of Oregon over a seven-year period reveals new details about how the giant marine mammal finds…

I've seen my future and it's full of beans, both literally and figuratively. In addition to increasing the amount of beans, eat a lot of vegetables,…

Artist’s impression of Barnard’s b, a planet orbiting around Barnard’s starESO/M.Kornmesser Barnard’s star, one of the Sun’s closest neighbors, appears to have at least one planet…

Tim Winton's new movie 'Juice' has been compared to post-apocalyptic 'Station Eleven' and 'The Road'Buena Vista Images/Getty Images We science fiction fans will have to work…

An exoplanet with at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard's Star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days. Artist's impression…

Standing at an impressive height of 29,032 feet, Mount Everest surpasses the nearby Himalayas by several hundred feet.Scientists have discovered that the world’s highest mountain is…

Martian “spiders” are small, dark, spider-shaped formations up to 1 km (0.6 miles) in diameter. The leading theory is that they form when spring sunlight hits…

Biomarkers in blood may indicate certain medical conditions Evgeny Sarov/Alamy Researchers have linked eight genetic markers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which may one day be…

Living Coelacanth Latimeria Coelacanths are iconic “living fossils,” one of the most conservative groups of vertebrates. Now, paleontologists have described a new species of primitive coelacanth…

The 34th Ig Nobel Prize was awarded today for 10 unexpected things – all so surprising that, in keeping with the Prize's long tradition, it makes…

Based on multiple analytical techniques applied to two well-preserved soft-bodied specimens of trilobites, the Late Ordovician species Triarturus Eatonii and Middle Cambrian species Polygonum gracilis, paleontologists…

summarySeismologists detected unusual vibrations and determined that a 650-foot-high tsunami had occurred in Greenland.The tsunami was caused by melting glacial ice that triggered landslides and washed…

Part of a mountain and glacier along Greenland’s Dikson Fjord in August 2023 (left), and the same location after a landslide in September 2023Soren Lisgaard/Danish Army…

Diagram of the end-Permian extinction event, where extreme temperatures may have caused forests to die off.Richard Jones/Science Photo Library The end-Permian extinction, 250 million years ago,…

summaryBoeing executives have made few public comments about the company’s Starliner spacecraft in the past six weeks.The capsule returned to Earth without any crew on Saturday,…

AST SpaceMobile satellite illustration AST Space Mobile Five more are due to join the unusually reflective prototype satellites later this week, which shine brighter than nearly…

Jared Isaacman looks out the hatch of the Dragon capsule.SpaceX SpaceX made history today when its private astronauts conducted the first-ever private spacewalk as part of…

New research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reveals that Atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) is three times more common in the United States…

The arrival of human flight’s future was uneventful during a time of minimal flying in June 2020 when COVID-19 was rampant all over the world. Despite…

In 2015, archaeologists discovered Neanderthal fossils. Grotte Mandolin is located on the Mediterranean coast of France, in the shadow of a rock overhanging directly into the…

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Its archaeological record, including megalithic statues, has captured…

There are few high-quality studies on the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. Emanuele Contini/Nuru Photo via Getty Images One dose of one type of…

When my daughter was little, she would wash her hands a lot. We might have lightly teased her, saying she was a bit OCD. Then she…

The movement of bubbling gas on the surface of R DoradusALMA (ESO/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/NRAO)/W. Breming A giant bubble of hot gas more than 75…

The famous Moai statues of Easter Island Tero Hakala/Shutterstock DNA analysis of ancient ruins on Easter Island has revealed that the population was actually growing when…

The jawbone of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, thought to have belonged to an isolated groupXavier Mus Genetic analysis of Neanderthal fossils found in France has…

We’ve probably all heard people jokingly or proudly describe their habit of meticulously rearranging their bookshelves or taking an incredibly long time to clean their bathroom…

New research has identified four genes that, if altered, could impact the age at which menopause occurs. These genes (ETAA1, ZNF518A, PNPLA8, and PALB2) were found…

This groundbreaking achievement will improve our understanding of the Sun’s atmosphere and shed light on how its changing conditions affect our technology-dependent society. The Inouye Solar…

Chemists at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research have discovered that sulfurous acid (H2So3), once formed in the gas phase, is kinetically stable enough to allow…

The image is Mars Cloud Map Captured High resolution stereo camera (HRSC) Equipment On ESA's Mars probe “Mars Express”. Leech waves on Mars are created when…

Weight-loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy have been under discussion for some time, but new research suggests there may be better alternatives. Enter Amicretin, a novel…

Bluestreak Cleaner checking himself out in the mirrorOsaka Metropolitan University Before deciding whether to fight another fish, wrasse look at their own reflection in the mirror…

The newly discovered theropod and ornithopod dinosaur footprints date back to the Early Cretaceous period, more than 120 million years ago, when Australia was still connected…

Paleontologists found fossilized seeds of gymnosperms, relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgo trees, in the stomachs of two of the specimens. Longipteryx caoyangensis One of the…

California wildfires spread rapidly on Tuesday as firefighters faced strong winds, dry conditions, and a heatwave that pushed temperatures into triple digits in the Los Angeles…

Paul Riding/Joseph Woodhouse Dinosaurs ruled the earth for around 180 million years. But fossils that are at least 65 million years old are incredibly hard to…

At least 140 million Sun-like stars in our Milky Way galaxy may have experienced similar stellar flybys, according to a new study by astrophysicists from the…

Recent news has not been favorable for those with a fear of flying. Reports of severe turbulence and mid-air door incidents can be distressing, especially for…