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Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.

Imagine if it had…

The “Doomsday Clock,” which reassesses the state of the world annually, is now set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been to heralding a manmade global catastrophe.

Humanity continues to court species-threatening disaster…

Researchers connecting pieces of the massive Alzheimer’s puzzle are closer to slotting the next one in place, with yet another link between our guts and brain.

Animal studies have demonstrated Alzheimer’s can be passed on to young mice…

When the Undertones sang about “Teenage Kicks,” they could well have been inadvertently referring to the chaotic and violent “teenage” periods of planetary systems that are shaped by collisions between bodies of various sizes, such as the…

Our bathrooms are a strange mix of biological necessity, hydraulic engineering, and personal hygiene. Within the same small space, we eliminate our human waste and clean ourselves; isn’t that a bit…

A six-year survey covering 669 million galaxies has revealed insight into dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon driving the universe’s accelerating expansion.

The landmark survey paints a complicated picture about our understanding of the…

In the coastal forests of northern California, a rare and elusive predator has been quietly struggling for survival. Once thought to be extinct, this creature now faces numerous challenges due to habitat loss and overhunting. A recent study,…

NASA is progressing a little faster than originally predicted toward a critical fueling test of its Artemis 2 moon rocket.

The agency had targeted no later than Feb. 2 to complete the “wet dress rehearsal” for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System…

Here’s a use of AI that appears to do more good than harm. A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) developed a neural network that searches through space images for anomalies. The results were far beyond what human experts could…

AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images