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For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have journeyed through space to stare at the Sun, capturing haunting images of the giant ball of hot gas at the heart of our solar system. Our…

Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.

The Orbiter, a joint NASA/European Space Agency project, lifted off in 2020.

The craft helped solar boffins…

Astronomers’ attempts to peer into the earliest reaches of the universe could be threatened by thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions that ruin observations made with highly sensitive telescopes.

As New Scientist reports,…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space…

A recent discovery has left scientists in awe after a 200-million-year-old creature, once thought to be extinct, was captured on camera in Indonesia. The Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, also known as Zaglossus Attenboroughi, was…

There’s that great sequence in Finding Nemo where Bruce, the great white shark seemingly in recovery for eating fish, gets a nostril-full of Dory’s blood following a scuba-mask accident. He sniffs, and it triggers euphoria before sending poor…

Summary: A new study reveals how humans use flexible problem-solving strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning when faced with complex tasks. Researchers had participants predict a hidden ball’s path through a maze, requiring…

Scientists have captured an unprecedented glimpse of cosmic dawn, an era more than 13…