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NASA is facing one of the largest workforce shakeups in its history, with nearly 4,000 employees — about one-fifth of its civil service staff — choosing to leave through voluntary buyout programs in recent months. The numbers come from…

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• A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive.

• This builds on an existing model that requires negative energy—an impossibility.

• The new model is exciting, but warp…

The Moon completes about 12.37 orbits of Earth each year. Most years see 12 new moons, but occasionally there are 13. When a season, defined as the period between a solstice and an equinox, contains four new moons, the fourth is called a black…

In a major step forward for one of NASA’s most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

“This shield…

How the New Chikungunya Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S.

By Josh Fischman edited by Dean…

What could the next mega-earthquake on California’s notorious San Andreas fault look like?

Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from Monterey County all the way through Los…

In Argentina’s Patagonia, researchers have uncovered a previously unknown dinosaur species that lived approximately 95 million years ago. Named Astigmasaura genuflexa, this massive plant-eating sauropod measured nearly 60 feet in length and…

Marine researchers at OCEARCH have confirmed that Contender, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is currently swimming near Pamlico Sound, North Carolina — a popular summer vacation destination. The 14-foot,…