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Ambitious new missions to the moon, Venus, Jupiter and more are planned for 2024. Here is a preview of the exciting year in space ahead.

Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess.

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, engineer, author, economic theorist and medical doctor.

Colossus and Wolverine have a new combo move that shows off the brutal new X-Men era

Here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 Quadrantid meteors.

If the James Webb Space Telescope detects depleted carbon dioxide in a planet's atmosphere, that could indicate water.

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed – and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in September..

Scientists have discovered microstructures in 1.75 billion-year-old microfossils from the NT that could unearth the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis.

SpaceX launched a Swedish broadband satellite tonight (Jan. 3) on the company's second mission of 2024.

Photosynthesis is the starting point for almost every food chain, sustaining most life on Earth. You would be forgiven, then, for thinking nature has perfected the art of turning sunlight into sugar. But that isn’t exactly true. If you struggle with life goals, it might reassure you to know even…

The first-ever private mission Venus is slated to launch in 2025. and aims to search for signs of life in its clouds by detecting organic chemistry.