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The singer, 40, was called out for the ‘disgusting’ 11-minute flight she took through space on Monday

The night sky will dazzle this week as the Lyrid meteor shower kicks off its annual display, marking the return of one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year.

An AI algorithm designed to look for planetary systems that could host Earth-like, habitable zone planets, has found 44 candidates.

Scientists are one step closer to understanding bioluminescent seas thanks to a new database spanning centuries.

Someone asked, “What is the coolest [freaking] fact you know?” and people from across the internet shared their best bit of lesser-known information about the world.

Gayle King is "very disappointed and very saddened" by criticism of the Blue Origin space flight she took earlier this week.

US President Donald Trump has launched an investigation into critical minerals, signalling further tariffs in the natural resources sector. The move follows Beijing’s announcement of export restrictions on rare earths, marking an escalation in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Forecasters say the northern lights could be seen across a large swath of the U.S.

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest something very different, but equally rare, may have happened instead.