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The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS ... Unlike the older Hubble telescope, which orbited Earth, Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope is placed in orbit around ...

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

New research, however, suggests Earth already had enough hydrogen of its own, thank you ... called an enstatite chondrite. I know what you’re thinking: What does hydrogen on a meteorite have to ...

The ESA team then performed testing for a few weeks, before telling Gaia to leave its home at a point in space called L2 and start ... the Milky Way. To do this, it measured the precise positions ...

Our smartphones have blurred the space ... people should do their best to respect the privacy of the person who's calling you ...

Getty Images Thermodynamics is the study of the effects ... a network of roads in a city. “You see the roads, but you still don’t know what the traffic will do,” he says.

Researchers at QuTech in Delft have combined superconductors and quantum dots to observe and manipulate so-called Majorana ... bound states and to study them in detail. You're essentially at ...