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Almost unnoticed, tucked into the 2021 fiscal NASA funding section of the recently passed omnibus spending bill, is a provision that would seem to liberate the upcoming Europa Clipper…

Open your windows while eating Christmas dinner: Simulation reveals how fresh air whisks away coronavirus particles in a dining roomExperts from Hexagon Manufacturing…

Though this year’s Christmas celebrations were muted across the globe owing to the pandemic, the festive cheer nonetheless managed to spread to the outer space. The…

Shortly after Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returned to Earth, JAXA showed off some of the samples it collected from asteroid Ryugu. Those rocks came from…

Artist’s impression of Ubirajara jubatus.Illustration: Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020The re-analysis of an old fossil has revealed features never seen before in a dinosaur,…

The first complete map of a platypus genome has just been released, and it's every bit as strange as you'd expect from a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous spurs, a…

NASA animation showing the upcoming landing of the Perseverance rover.Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GizmodoIn just 57 days, NASA’s Perseverance rover will attempt a landing on Mars. Mission…

Scientists say they’ve identified a new, unusual chicken-sized dinosaur with flamboyant features never before seen in the fossil record. The new species, Ubirajara jubatus, lived about…

This graphic simulation image provided by China National Space Administration shows the orbiter and returner…