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Microorganisms – in particular bacteria – are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major evolutionary advantages, such as allowing them to interact with one another or their environment and helping defend against different threats. Because of…

Astronomers have spotted a bright flash of light from a Jupiter-size world being consumed by its own star in a preview of Earth’s likely fate.

Watch live as a lunar eclipse joins the full Flower Moon on Friday (May 5) thanks to a free telescope livestream from the Virtual Telescope project.

Advanced alien civilizations could probably already tell that there's intelligent life on Earth, thanks to our cell phone towers.

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for most of the universe's mass, but it doesn't interact with light, making it effectively invisible. So how do astronomers know dark matter exists?

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and the Moon are imperfectly aligned. In this case, the Earth blocks some of the Sun's light from directly reaching the Moon's surface and covers all or part of the Moon with the outer part of its shadow.

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on May 5. The penumbral eclipse of the Moon occurs when the Moon passes through the outer part of the Earth’s shadow.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Future Redeemed expansion brings the franchise full circle in surprising ways, setting a high new bar for connected storytelling.

These unseen newborn planets are stirring up dust around TW Hydrae about 200 light years from Earth.

Earth will also be engulfed by the Sun — but not for billions of years

An outburst of 'shooting stars' from Halley's Comet could result in a dazzling Eta Aquarid meteor shower on May 5 and 6 — if the full moon doesn't get in the way.