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Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm’s length.

Male octopuses use a specialised arm called the hectocotylus to place a package of sperm inside the female’s reproductive system.

The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space.

In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the early Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object, and it was this giant impact that spun off…

A zero-gravity indicator designed by a San Francisco Bay Area second-grader is onboard Artemis II, Nasa’s first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. As the rocket entered space following Wednesday’s launch, the smiley-faced plush toy was…

Artemis 2 is on its way to the moon.

The mission’s Orion capsule aced a crucial translunar injection (TLI) burn this evening (April 2), firing its main engine to leave Earth orbit and head toward our planet’s natural satellite.

It was a huge…

NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully lifted off from Florida’s Space Coast Wednesday (April 1) around 6:35 p.m. EDT. But today (Thursday) marked the mission’s next crucial step: the translunar injection burn, the long push that sends the…

For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has…

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission just committed to leaving Earth orbit

The Orion capsule and its three-man, one-woman crew successfully broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday evening, hours after NASA’s mission management team cleared the Artemis II crew for a critical rocket firing. 

The…

One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories that infamously don’t get along. And the latest attempt to bridge the pair brings…