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Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

Musk’s role is a glaring conflict of interest; SpaceX has been an aerospace contractor for years and could stand to profit nicely from the creation of DOGE, which could shift government functions to ...

Peer reviewers examine the experimental design ... Science News doesn’t present “both sides” of an issue when there is a clear scientific consensus. For issues such as the age of the Earth ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

Intelligence is a complex trait that is difficult to define, let alone measure accurately. IQ tests are one of the most ...

“The key insight is that the ideal learning rate increases in the same way regardless of the pace of environmental change, whether the organism changes its environment or alters its interaction with ...

In the last few years, nearly 100 people have become private astronauts through the space tourism companies Blue Origin, ...

Today, it's making history as it conducts new science. But how are two spacecraft from the '70s ... Voyager project manager from 1975 to launch in 1977, "we didn't design them to last 30 years or 40 ...

Diane Madden, Louisiana Tech University’s associate director of the Science and Technology Education Center (SciTEC), was ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...