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Each summer, skywatchers around the world look forward to the famous Perseid meteor shower, but often overlook four lesser showers that peak between July 29 and Aug. 16.

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution than expected, which "changes the physics we need to consider when planning these types of missions," researchers say.

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field.

What a sight to behold

From the middle of cities to the middle of nowhere, each VALORANT map has a real location on Earth.

"It remains possible that there are other unseen planets in the system. The challenge is finding them!"

In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment marked the beginning of a new era in astronomy and planetary science, earning the Swiss pair the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. In a recent visit to the Sorbonne,…

The four astronauts of Axiom Space's latest private mission have safely returned to Earth after more that two weeks aboard the International Space Station.

Few things in this world are just as crazy as some scientific facts you're about to hear.