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In 2020, something near the centre of the Milky Way switched on and off six times in…

Complex life may have started before Earth had much oxygen at all

China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United…

For billions of years, the Moon’s almost airless surface has been exposed to the solar…

Researchers linked to Washington State University proposed in 2026 that salty…

Only one spacecraft has ever visited Uranus or Neptune

Scientists took one of the naked mole rat’s longevity tricks

A McMaster University AI model called SyntheMol-RL designed a new antibiotic candidate…

We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985…

In 2018, low Earth orbit still had months of margin
