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A viral claim making the rounds online and on social media claims “the world to go dark for six minutes” on Aug. 2, intimating that it won’t happen again for

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support liquid water and potentially life. Located about 35 light-years from Earth,

Tantalizing evidence hints that dark energy might be evolving, leading some cosmologists to suggest that our universe will collapse in a “Big Crunch” sooner than expected. Over the past year,

The new moon arrives on July 24, a day after the moon and Jupiter make a close pass in the dawn sky. The exact timing of the new moon phase

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 3 is off to a strong start after its two-episode debut last week with “Hegemony, Part 2” and “Wedding Bell Blues.” As chapters progress

With the arrival of the new “Fantastic Four: First Steps” film, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed its own new superhero, a fiber optic insrument known as the 4-metre

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is getting

In a serendipitous turn of events, scientists have discovered that Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weather satellites, designed to monitor storms and climate patterns here on Earth, have also been quietly

A new international award named for the first person to step foot on the moon will honor excellence in “space discovery” as established by the school known as “the cradle

A new Chinese freighter spacecraft arrived at the Tiangong space station last week, packed with supplies. Tianzhou 9 launched July 14 atop a Long March 7 rocket at 5:34 p.m.