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NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

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The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...