“Our idea was to use a very special type of radar to map the world’s forests from space. The goal was to understand how ...

Public health experts worried about the future of vaccination in the US have come together in an unprecedented new initiative ...

Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

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SpaceX launched 50 Starlink satellites in total, in two launches; the first one with 23 on board and a second one with 27. A ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

The project also shows that mammoths in the Modern Late Pleistocene fell into three genetic groups, all of which shared a most recent common ancestor around 780,000 years ago. Notably, this loosely ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

The USA has no plausible challenger to the Acasta (although Greenland might) but that doesn’t mean the Morton Gneiss is the local champion. After a discussion over beers, Professor Bob Stern of the ...

A boiled egg. What could be better? A perfect pod of fats, protein, and flavor, handily packaged in a crackable shell that’s tough enough to survive boiling so that when you rip it away there’s a ...