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The first humans to orbit over Earth’s north and south poles are sending back images from their spaceflight, and the views are incredible.

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies…

SpaceX has successfully launched the Fram2 private crewed mission on March 31 at 9:46 PM Eastern time on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. Fram2 is the first human spaceflight to explore the Earth’s polar regions, which are not visible to the astronauts…

Researchers have created a “fingerprint” of a sulfur-based molecule found in space that may offer new clues about the formation of life on Earth, a new study reports.

Sulfur is an essential element for life as we know it, and a building block for…

Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star systems — and it was all thanks to a creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins…

The sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare, continuing its streak of intense activity. On April 1, at 2:46 a.m. EDT (0646 GMT), an M5.6-class flare erupted from sunspot region AR4046 — the same region responsible for last week’s…

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Space is hard is a recurring maxim, and it is particularly true of human bodies. Prolonged time in microgravity has a whole array of physiological effects, from losing blood cells to getting weaker bones. But where exactly that bone loss happens…

For decades, tool use was seen as the hallmark of human evolution. Later, researchers began to notice this skill in chimpanzees, crows, and even sea otters. But one group remained conspicuously absent from this conversation – fish.

They were…