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Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.

The scientists also suggested that the amount of oxygen created may fluctuate depending on the number and mixture of nodules on the ocean floor.

Four astronauts moved their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to a new space station docking port on Sunday (Nov. 3) to make way for an incoming cargo ship.

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a colorful ball that resembles Jupiter.

A signal beamed at Earth from Mars in 2023 has finally been decoded by a father and daughter team in the United States.

The Northern Lights "may be visible" in the UK again this week, according to the Met Office – see exactly when and the best spots to see…

Valencia was particularly hard-hit.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), will rendezvous with the asteroid in February 2029.

The sun erupted with an X-class solar flare on Halloween, and solar activity is expected to remain high through Nov. 3.

Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe