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Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home on Saturday from hundreds who took part in setting a record for deep space travel during the US space agency Nasa’s lunar comeback.

The crew of…

On Friday evening, when the crew of Artemis II—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, it felt as though the entire world was watching.

Crowds lined the…

Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat infections.

The root of tormentil (Potentilla erecta), a small yellow wildflower that grows across Ireland, the UK and Europe,…

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape of what is now Tanzania nearly two million…

On the morning of April 11, 2026, SpaceX made another groundbreaking achievement in space exploration. A Falcon 9 rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, successfully carried the Cygnus XL cargo ship into orbit,…

Caroline Zago rarely checks her phone during the school day.

But on April 1, the day Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its mission to go to the far side of the moon, the seventh grade science teacher at Twin Hills…

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old sandstone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh.

The small rectangular monument, called a stela or stele, was found during restoration work at Karnak temple complex in Luxor…

Hidden beneath Saudi Arabia’s desert, lava tube caves are revealing traces of human life stretching back thousands of years. At Umm Jirsan, researchers have uncovered clear evidence of repeated occupation, from the Neolithic through to the…