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Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.

Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts…

Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has unfortunately never been recovered.

A lot of what we know about dinosaurs comes from…

Six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will appear in a dark night sky together for almost a week, beginning Sunday, Aug. 17. The fairly rare “planetary parade,” which is sometimes mistakenly called a planetary…

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own.

As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently…

Scientists discovered that azuki bean beetles — an agricultural pest — lay larger male eggs when under stress from climate change.

What’s happening?

According to Kyushu University, researchers published a study in Scientific Reports showing how…

This…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas distributions.

In a paper authored by…

A recent discovery sheds light on a bizarre phenomenon at the center of our Milky Way: the detection of cold hydrogen clouds embedded within the superheated Fermi bubbles, vast structures of gas and cosmic rays that have been towering over the…

Curiosity has just come across a new and exciting rock during its travels in the Gale Crater on Mars.

Just a few centimeters across, the tiny formation is notable for its amazing resemblance to branch corals that can be found living in…