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Fears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to have been misplaced, according to new observations.

Discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 was briefly considered the “most dangerous asteroid”…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

The global reality TV show franchise The Traitors has a simple premise: among a cast of, say, 23 people, roughly 20 are…

Citizen scientists from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have identified an object traveling at an incredible 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to escape the Milky Way’s gravity. This discovery, detailed in a study published…

Nature is full of relationships: predator and prey, parasite and host, competitor versus competitor. But there is another, often-forgotten relationship that involves species working together for each other’s mutual benefit.

These relationships,…

WASHINGTON — NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within the agency last year.

In a March 9 email, Christopher Reynolds, principal…

Deep beneath the shifting sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, a massive marine mammal moves slowly through waters that remain near freezing for most of the year. The animal, known as the Bowhead Whale, can weigh more than 100 tons and measure up to…

Scientists analyzing images from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have found the first visual evidence that small asteroids exchange rocks and dust in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of…

Whether it’s enjoying a podcast, listening to music, or chatting on the phone, many of us spend hours a day using our headphones. One 2017 study of 4,185 Australians showed they used headphones on average 47–88 hours a month.

Health advice…

For the first time ever, scientists have captured on camera the ghostly ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms. Invisible to the naked eye, this eerie glow is real, it’s measurable, and it’s happening above forests all…

Construction workers in the Tongnan District of southwestern China expected to spend their day pouring concrete for a foundation at a new industrial building project. Instead, the heavy machinery began to expose something buried far deeper…