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The Voyager 1 probe, the first human-made object to reach the space between stars, has suffered a se...

A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow l...

If you've got itchy skin, it could be that a microbe making its home on your body has produced a lit...

A 85-foot-tall, dark-gray building stands in southern Virginia, surrounded by grassy fields and roll...

NASA should play a "prominent role" in the federal government's ongoing study of unidentified flying...

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the U.S. Tests for genetic risk factors are inexpensi...

A few years ago, Junius Nottingham Jr. was on a family vacation in Florida with his wife, his daught...

A study examines the toll of silicosis on stone workers. Dozens of young Latino men in California de...

California is poised to become the first state in the country to adopt special measures to protect w...

When a police officer stops a Black driver, the first 45 words said by that officer hold important c...

For the past few winters, researchers have been intentionally flying into snowstorms. And high in th...

When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often a...

High up in some ice-filled clouds, sitting inside an airplane loaded with science instruments, Chris...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. The James Webb Space Telescope ...

The managers of the James Webb Space Telescope are considering a big change in how its observations ...

Over 150 virologists have signed on to a commentary that says all the evidence to date indicates tha...

When Kathleen Aukstikalnis was expecting her first baby, she turned to a common prenatal test that a...

A federal judge has ruled that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the law when it dete...

Nuclear bombs. That's the go-to answer for incoming space objects like asteroids and comets, as far ...

NASA should work towards building a giant new space telescope that's optimized for getting images of...

In 1977, NASA sent out two Voyager probes to study Jupiter and Saturn. The spacecrafts were designed...

In December, NASA will launch the most powerful telescope ever put into space. The James Webb Space ...