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During Queen's 1970s pomp, one eyebrow-raising promotional stunt caused guitarist Brian May to question its merits nearly 40 years later.

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.

GROWING up in the Brickfields area of Worcester and being educated at the city’s Royal Grammar School probably prepared Bob Lessemun for all ...

Researchers at McGill University used 2,000-year-old stone jars in Laos to observe long-term ecological processes, enhancing understanding of how strongly tree cover shapes small freshwater ecosystems ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations show how it went.

This is the moment the series leaves the Bronze Age behind. He explains why iron replaced bronze—iron ore is everywhere while tin trade can collapse—then traces where iron ore deposits came from (the ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Sudden loss triggers distinct neurological consequences, with auditory memory playing a central role in how the brain ...