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Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario — potentially triggering a runaway cascade that may render…

Scientists analyzing the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid in its size class yet.The record-breaking space rock, called 2025…

The discovery of 773,000-year-old fossils in a cave in Morocco is transforming the geography of human origins by placing the start of the modern-human lineage squarely…

The centuries-old mummified remains of Indigenous Siberians are revealing secrets about their genetics over a vast period — before, during and after Russia’s conquest of their…

Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos, NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft has unveiled its first complete, all-sky mosaic of the universe.The first of…

The U.S. government has officially resurrected the food pyramid — and flipped it on its head.The new food chart emphasizes meats, dairy and what it calls…

A handful of 60,000-year-old arrow tips unearthed in a South African rock shelter are the oldest evidence of poison weapons in the world, a new study…

Archaeologists have recovered a rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet in England that may have been used in Queen Boudica’s wars against the Romans. The battle trumpet, also…

Scientists say they may have extracted Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing for the very first time.The trace DNA, embedded in a red chalk…

Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet completely melted about 7,000 years ago at temperatures close to those predicted for the end of this century, and it…