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Every day, researchers search for optimal solutions. They might want to figure out where to build a major airline hub. Or to determine how to maximize return while minimizing risk in an investment portfolio. Or to develop self-driving cars…

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• The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data release, covering the first 13 months of the…

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year-old Julian Shapiro identified a glowing…

Craving an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top? This random alignment of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby protostar — with a multi-hued spiral galaxy may do the trick. This new composite image combining…

Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from modern avians. A new study has just pushed the boundary of evolutionary biology further by recreating primitive,…

In a mission designed to challenge longstanding theories about the upper atmosphere, NASA is preparing to launch three sounding rockets from the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The experiment, scheduled between March 24 and April…

• Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago.

• Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does whether they still exist or have long since gone…

SpaceX’s mission to launch the first astronauts into polar orbit is quickly approaching.

Named for the Norwegian seafaring ship Fram, which completed expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions between 1893 and 1912, Fram2 will ferry a crew…

The National Reconnaissance Office, which manages the American military’s spy…