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If you went through public school in the last fifteen years, odds are that your math tests included a space for an answer and a...

At around 4:40 AM today, two astronauts set out to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Less than two minutes into that flight,...

Astrobiology has always been at the fringes of NASA's science programs, and the last time it tried to break into the big-time with the...

Mount Etna may not spew out as much lava as Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (which has been erupting for months), but it's not an eruption...

If you're not rich enough to buy a trip around the Moon with SpaceX (like Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa), the next best thing is...

Even Magic Leap's CEO Rony Abovitz admits that all the hype surrounding the release of the company's new headset, which took several...

Between new techniques to de-age cells and transplant faces, modern medical technology has come a long way. Now, it appears that...

By now, most of us are familiar with the 'Invisible Gorilla' experiment, which shows how selective our attention can be, but now a...

The ocean is a puzzle that scientists are still working overtime to solve, and one piece of that puzzle has just been snapped into...

It sounds like the kind of story you tell to scare small children today: "If you're a naughty child, a giant bird will come and eat...

Ufologist Scott C. Waring calls it  "Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico," which is a pretty bold claim for (probably)...

And all this time we thought the people of Pompeii and the surrounding areas got off relatively easy in 79 AD — sure, being covered...

For years, astronomers have struggled to find what exactly is causing the mysterious phenomenon known as "fast radio bursts:" the...

Modeling the birth, growth, and death of cells with computers is a tradition that goes all the way back to "Conway's Game of Life," a...

When it comes to the struggle against climate change, wind farms have been the poster child for low-impact, environmentally friendly...

SpaceX has been hitting a lot of milestones lately: the company passed a battery of NASA tests with flying colors, announced its first...

While astronomers are still trying to pin down the existence of Planet Nine lurking somewhere beyond our solar system, scientists...

Ever since missions like Kepler and K2 launched, the discovery of new exoplanets has become a little less exciting. Sure they're...

The most exciting part of any Antiques Roadshow is the part where some nice old couple finds out the worn rocking chair they kept in...

Considering the recent air leak in the ISS, the three astronauts who set out for Earth yesterday aboard the Soyuz MS-08 were probably...