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A recent flyby of Venus by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has resulted in an unexpectedly good image of the scorched…

Not since 1923 have scientists gazed upon the Australian cloaked bee. That is, until recently when scientists located…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a full week, and the images are starting to pour in. Here are our…

Large meat-eating dinosaurs took on the role of multiple species while growing up, resulting in a shocking lack of…

The Red Planet’s two tiny moons—Phobos and Deimos—could have formed after an ancient collision, according to new…

A newly compiled 3D map has revealed more than 1 million binary star pairs located within 3,000 light years of…

A fragment of 10,000-year-old dog bone found along the Alaskan coast could be the oldest evidence of domesticated…

Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter in Western Australia,…

A tiny ear bone belonging to a cave bear that died some 360,000 years ago has yielded the oldest genome not sourced…

NASA has released stunning footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, in what is a seminal achievement for…

NASA has a new toy to play with on Mars, but the space agency has some important work to do before the Perseverance r…

NASA released a stunning photo of yesterday’s historic landing, showing the Perseverance rover being lowered to the…

Elizabeth Ann is the first clone of a black-footed ferret, but more importantly, she’s the first endangered species…

All six wheels of NASA’s Perseverance are firmly and safely on the Martian surface, following a successful landing…

Springhares are cute as can be, but their fur looks kind of dull under normal conditions. When cast under UV light,…

After a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, the Perseverance rover is finally ready to touch down on Mars. We’ve…

For the first time ever, geologists have used an aerial drone to map the interior of a giant blowout crater, the…

The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights into a pivotal Egyptian…

Scientists have captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of DNA, revealing previously unseen twisting and…

Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red…