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Private US spaceship takes off for the Moon
A US spaceship attempting a lunar landing lifted off early Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the second such priv...
Private US spaceship poised to launch for the Moon
An American spaceship attempting a lunar landing will aim to launch early Thursday, the second private-led effort this year after...
Space surgery: Doctors on ground operate robot on...
Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the fir...
Studying the otherworldly sounds in Antarctic wate...
In freezing Antarctic waters, amid bobbing chunks of floating ice, the hums, pitches and echoes of life in the deep are helping sc...
The lovers who left their heart in Havana cemetery
Cuban sugar magnate Juan Pedro Baro spared no expense when it came to building the immense marble tomb of his one true love in Hav...
Old joke: Apes also like to tease, meaning trait c...
A boisterous young chimpanzee slaps an adult in his family on the back, then scampers away and looks back to see the response to h...
US prestige at stake as Texas company launches for...
Another month, another Moonshot: An American spaceship attempting a lunar landing is to launch early Wednesday, the second private...
Japan postpones next-gen rocket launch over weathe...
Japan's space agency on Tuesday postponed the launch of its next-generation rocket planned for this week due to expected bad weath...
Apollo to Artemis: Why America is betting big on p...
A private Houston-based company is set this week to lead a mission to the Moon which, if successful, will mark America's first lun...
Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' comple...
Shielded by the jungle for hundreds of years, the remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadoran cities are being threat...
EU, UK urge scientists to join research programme...
EU and UK science chiefs on Monday launched a push to attract scientists to Europe's £80 billion Horizon research programme after...
Four astronauts splash down after Axiom private mi...
An all-European quartet of astronauts, including Turkey's first, splashed down off the Florida coast on Friday morning, completing...
OpenAI chief looking to raise trillions to reshape...
OpenAI chief Sam Altman is seeking to raise trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry, and has held talks...
Noxious fumes at night aren't a pollinating moth's...
Certain plants have flowers that open only in the evening, and depend on nocturnal pollinators such as moths to thrive.
How an unprecedented magma river surged beneath an...
A river of magma flowed underneath an Icelandic fishing village late last year at a rate never before recorded, scientists said Th...
Google goes big on ChatGPT-style chatbot
Google on Thursday rebranded its ChatGPT-style chatbot to Gemini, giving it unprecedented prominence on its products, as the tech...
US to launch next Moon mission on Valentine's Day
US companies are set to launch for the Moon on February 14, less than a month since a similar mission ended in failure with the sp...
Life on 'Death Star'? Saturn moon Mimas has hidden...
Saturn's small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth's backyard -- it is probably best known for look...
Rome restores towering colonnade of Trajan's Basil...
Rome's most majestic forum has recovered some of its former glory with a partial reconstruction of the imposing columns of Trajan'...
Archeologists probe mysterious Canadian shipwreck
A shipwreck believed to date from the 19th century has washed up on the snow-covered shores of Canada's Atlantic island province o...
Saudi more than doubles 2030 foreign tourism targe...
Saudi Arabia drew 27 million foreign tourists in 2023 and has more than doubled its goal for the end of the decade, an official sa...
Ice and fire: Antarctic volcano may hold clues to...
On Deception Island in Antarctica, steam rises from the beaches, and glaciers dot the black slopes of what is actually an active v...
Chavez legacy looms large, and divides Venezuela,...
"Chavez lives, damn it!" a soldier cries out every day at the same time outside the tomb of Venezuela's late leftist leader Hugo C...
Secret coded letters of WWII 'Great Escape' heroes...
The mass 1944 breakout of Allied prisoners of war from the notorious Stalag Luft III camp was famously immortalised by Hollywood.
Which dogs live the longest? Small ones with long...
Small dogs with long noses, sucg as whippets and miniature dachshunds, live for years longer than large flat-faced breeds such as...
Lunar night puts Japan's lander back to sleep
After a brief awakening, Japan's Moon lander is out of action again but will resume its mission if it survives the two-week lunar...
Humans reached icy northern Europe in time of Nean...
Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a "huge surprise" that...
Astronomers in Chile to scour universe with car-si...
Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope to re...
Deep sea explorer says may have found Amelia Earha...
A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed Am...
71% of musicians fear AI: French-German study
More than two-thirds of musicians fear that artificial intelligence will make it impossible to make a living, according to a study...
'Taylor Swift' searches blocked on X after AI porn...
Some searches including the terms "Taylor Swift" on X turned up no results on Monday after the company, formerly known as Twitter,...
Dutch unveil century-old time capsule buried under...
A 99-year-old time capsule discovered hidden under a statue of King William II during renovations was opened on Monday, revealing...