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SpaceX's first attempt to launch a Starship prototype on a high-altitude test flight ended with a last-second abort in Texas on Tuesday (Dec...

This comes after two National Health Service members developed allergic reactions to the vaccine on Tuesday.

The remnants of circular and rectangular villages dating to 1300 were discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

The Gaia space observatory just released its most detailed map of the universe yet, including the trajectories of hundreds of millions of st...

Carl Linnaeus, the famous 18th century Swedish botanist, created the basic foundation on which the modern binomial classification system is...

Pandas enjoy rolling in horse manure; this smelly habit may help them keep warm.

Here's a guide to the Atlantic hurricane season, including predictions, naming conventions and how to prepare for a storm.

A string of unexplained illnesses in Cuba, China and elsewhere was likely caused by directed, pulsed radio frequency energy, according to a...

All patients tested negative for COVID-19.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 62-foot-long (19 meters) Viking ship that dates back more than 1,000 years and likely held remains of a king...

Last month was even hotter than previous record-breaking Novembers.

How did an octopus in Japan grow nine arms?

"Jiuzhang" would be the most powerful quantum computer in the world, capable of performing some tasks 100 trillion times faster than the wor...

For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up ag...

Six volcanic islands in the Aleutian archipelago may be linked together in one massive caldera hiding underwater.

In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a sudden shock paralyzed...

Here's how the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines will be distributed and kept safe from the factory to your local pharmacy.

The Voyager probes left our Solar System years ago, yet even as they travel through interstellar space, they are still detecting bursts of c...

There's some people in southern Africa who might not be immigrants, scientifically speaking.

With new data from the European Gaia spacecraft, astronomers can now explore 1.8 billion cosmic objects in unparalleled detail.

You probably learned this at school.

It's official: Earth's minimoon is human made.

A close friend – let’s call him John – recently called, asking for advice.

How will you know if you have the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease? Here are the most common symptoms.

Some ancient islands now submerged beneath the North Sea survived a devastating tsunami about 8,000 years ago and may have played a key part...