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The Wolf Amendment, a law that prevents bilateral cooperation in space research between the U.S. and China, is preventing U.S. government-fu...

"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."

This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an upside-down bear to...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the Hubble Space Telesc...

Do the benefits of exercise differ by sex? The answer is yes, evidence suggests.

Does 8x magnification cut it for both stargazing and wildlife spotting, or is it just too small for either activity?

Challenges in visual and spatial processing and a deficit in training data have revealed a surprising lack of timekeeping ability in AI syst...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them surv...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the grou...

Elephants have the largest ears in the animal kingdom, and there's a practical reason for that.

May 17, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the w...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa.

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale ca...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlig...

New research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the breakdown of the Atla...

More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA engineers broug...

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ancestors.

The best telescopes for kids that we recommend are not toys but usable instruments, based on how easy they are to use for younger astronomer...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken h...

Moore's Law was an off-hand prediction that came to be one of the prevailing laws of modern computing — but what did it predict, and can we...

The Garmin Instinct 2X Solar delivers excellent value for budget-conscious outdoor enthusiasts and it is now even cheaper at Walmart and Ama...

A first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's preparedness for major solar storms.

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old c...

A baby known as KJ is the first person in the world to receive a customized CRISPR therapy designed to fix a specific mutation.

Is the Star Manual of Master Shi the oldest known astronomical catalog? Experts are divided.