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Fusion-powered space travel has long held the promise of rapid trips across the solar system: Mars in weeks,…

KeysQuestions4Explore4 For two decades, physicists couldn’t agree on something as fundamental as when diamond melts — and the…

Sea turtles usually found in the tropics have been spotted nesting on California beaches — a historical first,…

The harvest moon pairs up with Saturn for a 2-for-1 celestial display Get ready for a celestial double…

A powerful nor’easter is set to slam parts of the New York City area with coastal flooding and…

On Oct. 1, Google plans to hitch a ride on a SpaceX Transporter 18 rideshare flight, entrusting the…

In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable…

A young seal gained widespread attention on social media in China after swimming 200km to return to an…

Artistic rendering of Jehol therizinosaurians, illustrating variation in body size. Credit: Kōhei Futaka About 125 million years ago,…

A strengthening nor’easter is beginning its charge up the East Coast, lashing North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has now circled Earth 200,000 times, marking another extraordinary milestone for an observatory that…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types…

‘Everything we know about space travel is going to change within a decade’: The fusion breakthrough that could unlock a path to the stars