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Editor’s Note (4/12/23): On Tuesday New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York City Police Department (NYPD)...

First-time orbital flights can be challenging and often fail, like Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket, which launched in March and flew until...

SpaceX carried out Starship's first test flight on Thursday morning – successfully launching the shiny silver mega-rocket that could one...

In a cosmological matchup of “Are they or aren’t they?” the contest is firmly in the former’s favor—10 to one,...

The legal saga over the abortion pill mifepristone isn’t over yet. On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court extended its own...

With their baby-face aesthetics and a certain personable charm, flat-faced dogs are cherished companions around the world. It's a love...

The iconic first-ever view of a supermassive black hole sports a dramatic new look, thanks to machine learning. The picture...

In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea...

With the number of confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way rising, we will have to be choosier about the targets...

Many people in the U.S. who are fully vaccinated and boosted for COVID have been waiting—eagerly in some cases—to receive...