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On Episode 186 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jim Green, NASA’s former chief scientist, about snow on the moon.

It’s the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such a bounty of days off? In the last week, we reported on hundreds of developments in science. Here is a…

An expert discusses how the space race to the moon could lead to possible warfare, and how policies could avoid future conflict.

The story depicted on the ˁAin Samiya goblet—an 8 cm tall silver vessel from the Intermediate Bronze Age (c. 2650–1950 BCE)—might actually represent a different myth than originally thought, according to a new study.

Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket just aced its second-ever mission —and returned to Earth safely for the first time. See a video of the booster’s dramatic homecoming here.

Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also have unique strengths to build resilience. In a new perspective paper led by developmental psychologist Ili Ma, scientists, schools, parents…

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets in less than four hours overnight Friday (Nov. 14), adding another 58 satellites to its Starlink broadband megaconstellation.

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Tourists don’t just bring cameras and appetites on vacation, they also bring rosier opinions. A new study in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds that travelers systematically give restaurants higher online ratings than locals do, revealing a “tourist bias”…