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Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain one of the greatest puzzles in science.

As commencement season comes to a close, many campuses remain riven by the Israel-Hamas war. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the undergraduate class president was banned from walking at her graduation after delivering a fiery – and unauthorized – speech accusing her school of complicity in Israel’s campaign to…

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'Titan A.E.' deserves to be known as more than the flop that killed Fox Animation.

As of this post, Thunderbolts*, also known as New Avengers, is a financial flop. Don’t shoot the messenger, it’s the truth. The film has barely made $380 million globally. Even though most critics and fans seem to love it, people are not going to see it. While it’s debatable that…

Look at any world map and you'll see that the Pacific is the largest ocean. But how did it get so big?

What on earth was Lando Norris thinking? The way he collided with Oscar Piastri on lap 67 of the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix looked, frankly, amateurish. The McLaren driver saw a gap nobody else did – because it wasn’t there – and drove straight into the back of his own team-mate. My…

In a few days, a new satellite that can detect changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre, in almost real time and no matter the time of day or weather conditions, is set to launch from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai.

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat

New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, offering clues to Earth's ancient atmosphere.