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Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle takes place in microgravity, a study conducted aboard the International Space…

Nasa’s giant new moon rocket has moved to the launchpad in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The trip could blast off in February.

The 98-metre (322ft) rocket began its 1mph (1.6km/h) creep from…

The study, led by Martin Rahm and his team and published in ACS Central Science, reveals that frozen hydrogen cyanide (HCN) doesn’t just sit inert in the cold. It becomes a microscopic reaction engine, converting into more reactive forms and…

If it feels like everyone around you has come down with the flu, you’re not imagining it.

As of Jan. 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 15 million people have gotten sick with the flu this…

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human relative that lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis, the species of the famous Lucy. Published in Nature, the…

Captured by NASA satellite on January 10, 2026, the bloom appeared as swirls of green and blue, an unmistakable sign of a thriving marine ecosystem in motion. Located roughly 800 kilometers east of New Zealand’s South Island, the Chatham…

“All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the Roman poet.

Today, 20,000 sesterces would be equivalent to about [Australian] $300,000 in…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the…