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Many people have been surprised by NASA’s latest visualization of Earth, which gives the planet a shape resembling…

The old saying ‘fight fire with fire’ may be especially apt for California’s giant sequoia trees. Trees that…

Venus beside the International Space Station as captured by photographer A.J. Smadi from Edmonds, Washington on July 18,…

27 July 2026 How far are quantum computers from practical applications? And what challenges must be overcome for…

It’s been seen again: Galapagos sharks rubbing themselves against giant manta rays, possibly to scrape off parasites! The…

In 2025, quantum physicist Daniel Oblak and his colleagues published images of mice that made headlines around the…

The summer whaling season in Svalbard was brief but grueling. In addition to the dangers of hunting 100-ton…

SpaceX launched 24 more satellites for its Starlink network on Saturday (July 25), a day after demonstrating it…

Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…

For more than 100 years, Uruguay’s grasslands and river forests were missing a native mammal that once moved…

After centuries of study, Betelgeuse is revealed to be two stars The TimesBetelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet…

Many people are trapped inside a shopping mall that partially collapsed in an explosion after a large 7.1-magnitude…

Not round, not an ellipse: NASA’s gravity-based model reveals Earth’s true geoid shape