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Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

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SpaceX is still looking into what happened on Flight 9, an investigation overseen by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

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New research shows father-daughter relationships have a positive influence on female baboons’ lives—when the dads stick ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with ...