The International Space Station, a structure assembled across nearly three decades of multinational cooperation at a cost that dwarfs most national infrastructure projects, is heading toward a planned ...

For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

In the wake of xAI losing two of its co-founders and other prominent employees, Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting at his ...

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

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Researchers in the US have just unveiled a new convection cloud chamber which they ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Warble-duets seem linked to active territory-defense. Physical-fights in the wild were always preceded by warble-duets. Playback-experiments also showed that parrots increased warble-duets when ...

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...