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June 30 marks Tunguska, Congo independence, and Soyuz 11, plus events from Hernán Cortés to Tower Bridge, Hitler’s purge, and ...

All the new Nintendo Switch 2 games heading our way in 2026, from Star Fox to The Duskbloods ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it has begun final preparations ...

Scientists still don’t know where ghostly particles called neutrinos originate. A distant galaxy could be a potential source.

On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...

In a blow to Donald Trump’s agenda, America’s Supreme Court blocked an executive order that would have denied birthright ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

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The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and chip away at the mystery of dark matter.

A New Mexico teenager reportedly went to the emergency center with severe burns after a NeeDoh toy sitting in a hot car for hours exploded when she squeezed it. The story follows a spate of headlines ...