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Time measurements and calendars have often been refined over the years. | Photo Credit: Alexey Savchenko/Unsplash A: A tropical year…

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living…

An illustration shows a hypothetical picture of Mars 3.6 billion years ago when an ocean may have covered nearly half…

Space is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk.The billionaire’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to…

The sun sets next to a smokestack from a coal-burning power station in Beijing January 9, 2008. | Photo Credit:…

General relativity and quantum mechanics are two highly successful theories. The former explains gravity and the latter teams up with…

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where…

The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As…

The three most common phases of matter or visible in this image: the solid earth, the liquid water, and a…

A view of Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip. | Photo Credit: Microsoft In a head-turning announcement earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled…