Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.
Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern…

The long-awaited launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission dominated science news this week, with the excitement peaking Wednesday (April 1) as the space agency’s first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years blasted off from Cape Canaveral,…

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Freelance space writer Roger Guillemette has witnessed close to 100 rocket launches since 1975. On Wednesday (April 1), he was on the ground at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, reporting live on the Artemis II moon launch for Live Science. Here’s…

For the first time in more than half a century, humanity is on its way to the moon.
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission began heading toward lunar realms on Thursday evening (April 2), after its Orion capsule aced an engine burn that took it out of Earth…

Over 100 million people, and more than 30% of adults, suffer from some type of allergy in the United States, and that number is on the rise. But where are these allergies coming from? Do we inherit them, or do they result from environmental…

The Artemis II mission successfully continued its lunar flyby path, passing the halfway point between the Earth and the Moon, NASA has said.
Artemis II astronauts are the first to fly towards the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. They will not land,…

As of midmorning Friday, the crew were about 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometres) from Earth and were quickly closing in on the moon.
Published On 3 Apr 2026
NASA has released the first images taken from inside the Artemis II Orion…

Easter chocolate is all over supermarket shelves. Some people reach straight for milk chocolate eggs while others pause at the darker varieties, assuming they’re healthier.
Dark chocolate has gained a reputation as the “better” choice because…