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A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test.
New research finds that humankind's once-steady rise in life expectancy is slowing down, raising the question of whether we'll be able to expand our lifespan much further.
A new comprehensive review of the data suggests the "benefits of fluoridating water have declined in recent decades."
Two new studies highlight the enigmatic nature of antimatter, revealing its potential role in both understanding the universe's origins and unlocking the secrets of particle physics.
ULA's heavy-lift rocket needs to prove that it's got what it takes to launch military payloads to orbit. After today's not-so-perfect launch, we're a bit apprehensive.
Centaur 29P, an icy object in the outer solar system, is spewing unusual jets of hot gas, revealing its hybrid nature as a mashup of different cosmic bodies.
The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
Damaged mouse skin looked almost as good as new in less than two weeks, thanks to a protein from a parasitic roundworm.
The big cat outbreak is the latest worrying instance of widespread bird flu transmission to mammals.
ULA's heavy-lift rocket is poised to make a big impact in the industry, but tomorrow's second launch will need to go well for that to happen.
The storm should arrive today or tomorrow, and could bring with it some brilliant auroras.
The newly identified three-body system has a problem, and it’s not aliens—it’s that in about 20 million years, the stars are expected to merge and explode.
The 25-year-old woman is still making her own insulin a year after having gotten a transplant of her modified stem cells, scientists say.
After successfully launching a crew to the ISS, the rocket's upper stage experienced an anomaly during its deorbit burn.
A gravitational lens tripled the event in the night sky and helped astronomers measure the rate at which the universe is expanding.
While the storm could pose a threat to fragile electric systems, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the danger is minor.
The interstellar probe has just enough power to continue exploring the cosmos into the 2030s.
Researchers have found that bottlenose dolphins make a distinct open mouth gesture when playing with other dolphins, similar to how humans smile and laugh with each other.
Storms in the tropics were seen emitting medium-duration gamma rays, shaking up conventional knowledge about how lightning manifests.
Using an advanced imaging technique, engineers got a glimpse of water being formed at the smallest scale ever.
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