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Home Countdowns Spaceflight The National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into being on October 1, 1958. NASA announced the seven Project Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959, only six months ...

Scientists have been monitoring the development of a new evolutionary change in humans. More people are being born with an “extra” artery running down their forearms. The change is likely ...

Home News Science & Astronomy Bill Nye, everybody's favorite "science guy," has teamed up with 4-H to take students to Mars (figuratively speaking.) 4-H is a network of youth organizations across ...

The financial district of New York City as seen from Liberty State Park in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Pamela McElwee The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code ...

Cheops is ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite. It is the first mission dedicated to studying bright, nearby stars that are already known to host exoplanets, in order to make high-precision observations ...

In brief: Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Negev, Israel, developed a device that can warn users of an oncoming epileptic seizure up to an hour in advance. The wearable tech ...

Home News Spaceflight An artist's depiction of astronauts walking on the moon as part of NASA's Artemis program. (Image: © NASA) We finally know what kind of radiation environment future ...

Far from our solar system, phosphorus surrounding distant stars could be a telltale sign of worlds friendly to extraterrestrial life. Exoplanets orbiting stars rich in phosphorus may be more likely ...

A space probe is about to fly by Venus, and it could help search for the faint signatures of life in the planet’s atmosphere. The BepiColombo probe is slated to ...