Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

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T he ozone hole over Antarctica is healing. The latest update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows the ...

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“Having this complete, phased genome gives us an unprecedented level of clarity,” explained Zhangjun Fei, a professor at the ...

So why is it that such a large country has most of its population concentrated towards the south? Part of the answer is the "Canadian shield", a vast area of exposed Precambrian igneous and ...

The story of life is one of small changes and major shifts. The growth from a single-celled organism to a multicellular one ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87.

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...