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NASA leadership on Thursday outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the ...

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Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

The future of renewable energy might be in the sky. Researchers in China have reportedly tested a new, gravity-defying wind ...

Tests that could reveal when Alzheimer’s disease will emerge, while promising, are not ready for use in otherwise healthy people, scientists say ...

A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives ...

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the longstanding scientific evidence that ...