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An online rumor circulated last week that suggested that one of NASA's high-flying research balloons, used to hunt for exoplanets, had crashed in Texas. But the leader of the mission has since ...

The LaBrants explore and enjoy the world's largest indoor waterpark together. New details released about the death of Diane Keaton Warren Buffett suggests all parents do one thing before they die, ...

As our solar system’s interstellar visitor hides behind the Sun, humankind’s expeditions to Mars have stepped up to provide an extra set of eyes. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency announced that ...

For years, swimming and water polo have been two sports that shared a pool but little else. Yet for a growing number of athletes, the lines between these disciplines are beginning to blur.

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer. With the number of exoplanets having ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

Three scientists who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Susumu Kitagawa at Kyoto University in ...

Step outside tonight in the early evening, when Sagittarius lies above the southwestern horizon. Globular cluster M22 shines brightly at magnitude 5.1, readily observable with binoculars or any size ...

Launched on October 4, 1959, Luna 3 successfully became the first spacecraft to image the lunar farside. On October 7, 1959, the probe captured images using an onboard 35mm camera with treated film, ...

Typing has never looked — or sounded — like this. At the same time, it feels strangely familiar (if you’re an old fart like me). This week, Google Japan unveiled the Gboard Dial Edition, a bizarrely ...