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For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some meteorites, Earth has less hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, as well as noble gases like…

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the…

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 8, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus.

In celebration of our IRL return to the drama and wonder of space, we asked 11 astronauts…

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists have managed to pull fragments of it from a 1,500-year-old manuscript by scanning erased ink with X-ray…

In a quarry nestled in the hills of southern China, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil bed unlike any previously found from its time. The discovery, quietly developing over the past five years, has now drawn global scientific attention…

A medieval seal with a blood-red gemstone that was discovered in the U.K. is hiding an ancient secret, researchers have found.

A metal detectorist discovered the medieval seal in Gosfield, in the eastern county of Essex, in the fall of 2024. But…

Pets are a joy to be around, but it is hard to deny that…

Stargazers looking ahead to February’s highlights should make some time to look up not only during the night, but also during the day. In addition to the first solar eclipse of the year and a “planet parade,” there’s also have a historic…

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the same time, and what paths did they…