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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in ...

COVID-19 and America’s response to it are likely to profoundly affect our families, work lives, relationships and gender roles for years, say 12 prominent scientists and authors who analyzed 90 ...

Home News Science & Astronomy An image of SOFIA preparing for takeoff. (Image: © NASA) NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a ...

Those who argue that the system will magically self-correct are kidding themselves Credit: Jay Bendt Tempers are running hot in science (as they are in the U.S. at large) as ...

In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover was drilling into a curious rock when it accidentally cracked. The crack isn’t a big deal, and the sample was still able to be studied by the ...

Scientists successfully measured an event using zeptoseconds, which is an incredibly brief fraction of a second. The time it took for a photo to pass through a hydrogen molecule was ...

Will we be surprised again this November the way Americans were on Nov. 9, 2016 when they awoke to learn that reality TV star Donald Trump had been elected president? ...

Researchers examined deep-sea coral fossils - species Desmophyllum dianthus - to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The chemical signatures of nitrogen and carbon ...

The pyrite-type crystal structures of ZnSe2. Credit: JIA Tiantian Recently, a research group led by Prof. Zhang Yongsheng from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science ...