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“Star Trek” royalty Nichelle Nichols passed away in 2022 but her legacy endures.

Most well-known for her her memorable portrayal of Communications Officer Lt. Nyota Uhura in “Star Trek: The Original Series” and six final frontier feature films,

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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, a partial solar eclipse will be visible across the northeastern U.S., eastern Canada, Western Europe, northwestern Africa and northern Russia. While this is not a total solar eclipse — so no location will…

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography.  

The planets, all young gas giants, were…

Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of the modern era, completed his PhD thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, in 1966 at the University of Cambridge. This groundbreaking work laid the foundation for his…

Many spiders of the species Tegenaria pagana live in caves with limited vision, while others inhabit brighter areas.

This variation has drawn scientists to examine how genes guide the development of vision in Tegenaria pagana, including Dr. Efrat…

The fossilized remains of one of the smallest known human relatives have been unearthed in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, revealing a startling picture of life and death nearly 2 million years ago.

The young adult female Paranthropus…

Dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up 70 percent of everything in existence, was hypothesized to explain why the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Ever since, it’s been thought of as a constant, immutable presence.

Now, the

The Earth is exposed to restless forces that are never still or settled. Over thousands of years, it has shifted, cracked, and reformed itself in ways both violent and gradual.

Ice has come and gone, swallowing landscapes and then revealing them…