A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new ...

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On July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the moon as ...

A controversial geoengineering proposal suggests that brightening clouds off South America could weaken a burgeoning El Niño, ...

To align Universal Coordinated Time with the Earth’s rotation, a second occasionally gets added to the year. That may change in 2027 ...

This one-ton elephant seal has gone viral for smashing into cars and infrastructure, but biologists have a more poignant ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

For almost 60 years, a global ban on nuclear weapons in space has held up. But the growing number of satellites and ...

A best-yet measurement of one of general relativity’s most mind-boggling effects is “another feather in Einstein’s cap” ...

The U.S. Preventive Medicine Task Force is an independent group that offers guidance on what health screenings and ...