While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, ...

Lunar rocks are famously dry. They contain almost none of the volatile elements that easily escape into space, such as ...

Authorities are again searching for the person seen in grainy video walking away from the Brown University shooting that ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close.

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