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A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a commercial Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station for NASA after a week of delays.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the fading red supergiant b

The coronavirus probably has a stronger ability to spread than the World Health Organization has estimated so far. This according to a review of previous studies of the coronavirus' transmissibility.

A research station off Antarctica's northern tip just reported a new record-high temperature of 69.35 degrees Fahrenheit (20.75 degrees Celsius).

The Breakthrough Listen SETI project has scanned the interstellar Comet Borisov for "technosignatures" but come up empty so far.

Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call ghost DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehistoric humans likely procreated with an unknown group.

Bizarre organism found in amoebae in Brazil is named after mythical sea siren

Grady proposes that the frigid ocean beneath Europa’s layer of ice up to 15 miles deep could harbor octopus-like creatures.

A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

The underwater robot Icefin found unusually warm waters under Antarctica's

The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds.

A government report announced that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team gives the project just a 12% chance of launching in March 2021.

A company called Axiom Space is taking the idea of co-working space to a new altitude.

Astronomers believe Proxima B to have livable conditions needed by human beings to survive.

By recreating a mummy's vocal tract through 3D printing, we now know what an ancient Egyptian priest sounded like

A novel virus has infected over 200 people and caused three deaths. Here's everything we know about the mysterious new disease.

A new kind of mosquito won't spread any form of the deadly disease.

European researchers are working on a system that can churn out breathable oxygen from simulated samples of moon dust.

Vintage tractors have become one of the hottest items at farm auctions it's a trend that should be spread far and wide.

For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.