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NASA tracks the rare solar alignment of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on Jan. 22, 2026.

Space ‘fundamentally changes’ how viruses and bacteria interact, researchers say

Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues on just how ancient this landscape is come from far beyond Earth: cosmic rays that leave telltale fingerprints inside minerals at Earth’s surface.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will leave the International Space Station on Jan. 14, in the first-ever medical evacuation from the orbital lab. Here are the details.

Is this the 'Grey's Anatomy' of the Final Frontier? Alex Kurtzman already has a vision for 'Starfleet Academy' beyond Season 1.

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand"

Watch as a dazzling aurora shines across the surface of the earth in impressive footage captured from the International Space Station (ISS).

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks…