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NASA’s Artemis II moon mission just committed to leaving Earth orbit

The Orion capsule and its three-man, one-woman crew successfully broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday evening, hours after NASA’s mission management team cleared the Artemis II crew for a critical rocket firing. 

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One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories that infamously don’t get along. And the latest attempt to bridge the pair brings…

A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy that has been stranded in the Baltic Sea off Germany will be left to die; all rescue efforts have been called off, according to Till Backhaus, environment minister of the German state where the whale is now…

RFK, Jr., and EPA announce plan to track microplastics in tap water and humans

On April 1, four astronauts blasted off on what will be a 10-day voyage around the moon and back. Their mission, the first to send humans to the moon since 1972, will test key systems for two lunar landings in 2028, which will, in turn, lay the…

esearchers may have detected the first direct evidence of primordial black holes, potentially reshaping our understanding of dark matter. The gravitational wave signal, captured by LIGO in November 2025, has sparked a revolutionary…

Octopuses are some of the most mysterious animals living in the sea. In research out today, however, scientists have pulled back the curtain on the male octopus’ penis-like arm, formally known as the hectocotylus.

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Octopus sex is even weirder than you think

By Cody Cottier edited by Claire Cameron