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In the summer of 1977, while most people were listening to disco and trying to figure out Star Wars, NASA launched two small spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were simple-looking robots ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

“All in all, the undisputed factual record indicates that the United States and El Salvador have behaved as principal and ...

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big ...

On March 31, SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission, which sent four private astronauts on a 3.5-day mission to Earth ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

But now, they're planning to build telescopes on the far side of the Moon. These instruments will probe one of the last unexplored windows on the Universe. Here, astronomers hope to get a glimpse of ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third outing in James Cameron’s blockbuster sci-fi adventure series, has topped the US and Canada box office on its opening weekend. The latest in the franchise took an ...