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A 30-minute stroll across New York’s Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the US president ever found himself inside the museum he could see the Cape York meteorite: a 58-tonne mass of iron taken…

Heads up, skywatchers! There’s just one month to go until the annular solar eclipse of 2026.

At 4:56 a.m. EST (0956 GMT) on Feb. 17, the moon will begin to turn the sun into an impressive “ring of fire” during an annular solar eclipse. Maximum…

Pallab Ghosh and Alison Francis
Science correspondent and senior science journalist

This week’s science news was way over our heads, as astronauts and space agencies rocketed to the front pages. Topping the list is the early return of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Crew-11 on Thursday (Jan. 15) due to a medical…

You’ve probably seen an artificial intelligence system go off track. You ask for a video of a dog, and as the dog runs behind the love seat, its collar disappears. Then, as the camera pans back, the love seat becomes a sofa.

Part of the problem…

If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in more or less the same plane, traveling in the same direction.

But what is above and below that plane? And why are the planets’…

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby like a rottweiler’s, according to a genetic analysis of more than 3,000 dogs, wolves and coyotes.

The study,…

In 2003, during China’s first crewed spaceflight, a sound broke the silence. Inside the Shenzhou 5 capsule, orbiting more than 300 kilometers above Earth, Yang Liwei heard what he later described as knocking. The kind you might hear if someone…