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It’ll be a late lunch for SpaceX mission operators at Cape Canaveral due to the mid-day launch of another stack of Starlink satellites.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 6-67 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida…

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light traveled for 13.4 billion years to reach us. This discovery offers an exciting peek back into cosmic events that happened only a few hundred million years after everything got…

Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. 

The change comes after some have wondered over the years whether citations to retracted…

NASA’s Perseverance rover just made skywatching history.

The car-sized Perseverance spied auroras in Mars’ skies in mid-March, becoming the first-ever spacecraft to witness such a light show from the surface of another planet.

There’s nothing quite like looking up at the sky on a dark night and catching a glimpse of the path of light we know as the Milky Way. More than 400 years ago, Galileo viewed the Milky Way through a rudimentary telescope and determined that it…

Yellowstone’s seething terraces and steaming pools draw visitors for their color and heat, but to microbiologists they offer something else: a peek at the sort of place where the earliest stirrings of life may have taken hold in the form of…

A newly discovered bacterium is changing the way scientists understand bacterial size and complexity. Published in the journal Science, the study reveals a bacterium that grows up to nearly one centimeter long—roughly the size of a human…