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Apollo astronauts reported seeing flashes of light where there were none. Fifty years later, the flashes still mess with ...

NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will tackle nearly every aspect of astrophysics, including dark matter, dark ...

Rubidium atoms on China’s Tiangong space station fell with the same acceleration, upholding a cornerstone of Einstein’s ...

NASA’s attempt to save the falling Swift telescope failed, revealing the realities of the burgeoning field of satellite ...

Three species preferred different people based on their skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help make new ...

Scientists are largely clueless about the origins of static electricity. A quirky group of researchers aims to change that.

Appalachia is a hotspot of landslides, but many there can’t afford to move away or mitigate the danger, a new study finds.

A personalized mRNA vaccine paired with Keytruda may help keep skin cancer from returning after surgery, a large clinical ...

Artemis IV will put people on the moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years. NASA research reveals the microbes that ...

Capuchins hunt and eat small vertebrates more often as plant foods wane. The behavior may help us learn more about humans’ ...

A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt ...