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Walking down the aisles of your local grocery store, you’ve likely noticed products labeled “fair trade” alongside other product options. These certified items, from coffee and chocolate to bananas and tea, come with a promise: The farmers who grew these…
From dystopian futures to interstellar adventures, this quiz explores the classics that dared to imagine the impossible—and the authors who made it unforgettable.
Have you heard of “gray rocking?”
It isn’t just supermassive black holes that are messy eaters. Using a Japanese space telescope called XRISM, scientists have found that small black holes are a “hot mess,” too.
Two NOAA satellites saw a solar eclipse on Sept. 7 as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen on Earth.
In a recent study by Dany Coutinho-Nogueira and his colleagues, the remains of three non-adults from Cabeço da Amoreira were analyzed. The work is published in the journal Childhood in the Past.
Conducting a flyby mission to an interstellar object visiting our solar system is “feasible and affordable,” a new study finds. But orbiting such an interloper is a different story.
Space changes you. It strengthens some muscles, weakens others, shifts fluids within your body, and realigns your sense of balance. NASA’s Human Research Program works to understand—and sometimes even counter—those changes so astronauts can thrive on future deep space missions. …
Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from NASA’s DART mission, researchers are developing probability maps to…
This butterfly can hatch planets.