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As NASA and the China National Space Agency plan missions to Mars, one major concern is how the planet’s weaker gravity will affect astronauts. A recent study sheds light on the potential risks, particularly for our muscles. Since gravity…

When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake rattles a remote corner of the Pacific, the initial jolt lasts only seconds. But the planet does not simply fall silent. For hours afterward, the ground continues to hum at frequencies too low for human ears,…

Before Neanderthals went extinct, they experienced a major upheaval that resulted in just one of their genetic lineages surviving in Europe and then expanding across the continent, a new study shows.

The findings, published March 23 in the…

Off the coast of South Africa, near the fishing town of Gansbaai, two orcas have made a name for themselves worldwide.

Their names are Port and Starboard, and on multiple occasions, they’ve been observed hunting and killing one of the most…

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, vaccine technology burst onto the scene early in the COVID pandemic, leaving many people playing catch-up on the science behind the advance. Within the first six months of their availability, COVID vaccines prevented some

NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science

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NASA astronaut Don Pettit is arguably one of the best photographers to have flown in space.

Since his first mission beginning in 2002, Pettit has racked up four separate journeys into space, amounting to a total of 590 days in Earth-orbit.

Black holes are weird. You heard it here first.

But really, they’re even more bizarre than most of us realize. They warp space. They warp time. They can spin so rapidly they wrap the fabric of spacetime around them like a warm blanket on a…