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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building...
Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary...
How total solar eclipses help us measure ancient history
Total solar eclipses, like the upcoming one on April 8, occur on reliable schedules that we can calculate far into the past. This...
Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops...
By letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems...
Why do babies rub their eyes when they're tired?
Babies usually rub their eyes when they're tired, but why?
Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope snaps stunning...
Two new James Webb Space Telescope images show off massive bubbles carved out of a stellar nursery by giant, baby stars growing in...
Have all 8 planets ever aligned?
The solar system's eight planets will never truly be in a straight line, but they can get close to it.
'Worrisome and even frightening': Ancient ecosystem of...
In this extract from Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History, Jeffrey McKinnon examines the changes taking place in Lake Baikal as temperatures...
Hummingbird hawk-moth: The bird-like insect with a giant...
Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback...
