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By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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Credit: ESA/Cover Images A revolutionary new umbrella-like satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA) has just unveiled ...

Is the world on the cusp of a fleeting instant with the edge of time? July 9, July 22, and August 5, 2025, mark the dates when Earth’s rotation will accelerate just sufficiently to remove 1.3 to 1.51 ...

As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s ...

As the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew, piloted by Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, enters their final week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), they remain laser-focused on completing a ...

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

This summer, people will escape to beaches, bask in the ocean and visit marine wonders at the country’s spectacular aquariums ...

As this point is located inside Earth — roughly 1,000 miles (1,700 km) below its surface — most consider the Moon to be Earth’s satellite. Astronomers have been challenged by the Moon’s ...

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution created demand for stronger, more reliable materials for machines, railroads, ships and infrastructure. The material that emerged was ...