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Nearly 1,250 middle and high school students from 71 schools around the world joined Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for ...

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The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

The engine is capable of producing hundreds of milliwatts per square meter, and scientists are already working on practical ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Astronauts strapped moss spores to the outside of the International Space Station for nine months - and most of them survived the challenging experience ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...

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