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Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but updates regarding those activities are still all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui’s social media posts…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new moon, providing an excellent opportunity to see shooting stars without interference from…

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet’s icy surface.

A new study from NASA and Penn State University suggests fragments of biomolecules from ancient microbes could survive in Martian ice for tens of…

The world’s first commercial deep space astronomy telescope is set to search for stars that could host habitable exoplanets in their orbits.

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small…

Is it an achievable goal to remain mentally sharp while aging, or is it a pipe dream?

It’s entirely possible if you cultivate habits throughout your life that are beneficial to brain function.

As a researcher in cognitive neuroscience and the…

These goals are in line with the administration’s own stated priorities. Just weeks after shuttering OCS, the White House announced an executive order intended to, in its words, restore scientific integrity policies of federally funded…

Why Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe—And Often Essential

By Humberto Basilio edited by Tanya Lewis

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter embedded in a galaxy whose light took 7.3 billion years to reach us.

Exactly what this blob might be is currently an open…

How to Stay Safe during RSV Season

By Zachary Rubin edited by Kelso…

In 2021, a group of researchers at the Paris Brain Institute, including Andrillon, discovered that these self-experimenters had gotten it right. Waking up from this earliest sleep stage, known as N1, seemed to put people in a “creative…