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New results from the international Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, which includes researchers from Harvard, suggest that dark energy, widely thought to be a “cosmological constant,” might be weakening over time….

It is often said that the brain is the most complex object in the universe. Whether this cliche is actually true or not, it points to an undeniable reality: Neural data is incredibly complex and difficult to analyze. Neural activity…

SpaceX is aiming for takeoff this afternoon out of Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Team Vandenberg Guardians and Airmen will be supporting a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, sending 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

Liftoff is scheduled for 3:11 p.m.,…

For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune’s elusive auroras.

Scientists have long suspected that the distant ice giant hosts shimmering light displays, based on fleeting hints from the Voyager 2 probe’s flyby and…

Yellowstone National Park has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike, particularly due to its supervolcano, which has featured prominently in disaster films and existential musings.

Spread across three states, any…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

Named “St. Pauls Bay” by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark gray spheres, some of which have tiny pinholes.

An Australian company will attempt to be the first to grow a crop of mushrooms in space, aboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission set to launch in early April.

In an experiment aboard Fram2, the first human spaceflight mission to orbit Earth’s polar…

The moon will appear to take a “bite” out of the sun during a deep partial solar eclipse on the morning of March 29.

Globally, the eclipse will begin at 4:50 a.m. EDT (0850 GMT), with the maximum eclipse — when the moon covers the largest…

The story of early human migration into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first travelers arrived, how they adapted, and which paths they followed.

Evidence has surfaced in many forms, from stone…

The question of what existed before the Big Bang has baffled scientists for years. While the Big Bang is thought to have initiated the universe about 13.8 billion years ago, its origins remain a topic of heated debate. A recent study from the…