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The Canadian astronaut who was part of the historic Artemis II crew that successfully voyaged around the Moon earlier this year is retiring from the nation’s space agency, officials said.

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, on Monday released a photo of Torifune that was taken by Hayabusa2 at close range when…

The gas giant WD 1856 b should have been swallowed when its star ballooned into a red giant. Webb found methane, haze, and a faint leftover heat in its air, and that heat became the clue to how the planet survived.

Did you know the Earth does not have a perfectly circular orbit around our Sun? It is elliptical, which means that the Earth’s distance from the Sun varies depending on the time of year.

Early humans in North and South America relied heavily on hunting of large mammals, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, for food and

SAN ANTONIO — July 6, 2026 — A new Southwest Research Institute-led study compared eight AI-generated lunar crater catalogs, discovering that many of their published performance metrics drop sharply when the databases are evaluated using the same scientific standards humans are held to. Crater catalogs provide a comprehensive record of impact craters on planetary surfaces.…

A heatwave developing across the eastern United States will bring daytime heat, high humidity and stifling overnight temperatures as Ben Rich explains.

By their eighth birthday, an estimated 9 in 10 New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity. They might have been neglected, grown up with family violence, lived through a separation or coped with a parent’s mental illness or substance use problem.

How much do our genes determine about our lives, and could they influence traits like risk-taking, antisocial behaviour or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how genetic factors shape human behaviour. In her book Original Sin…

Sail4th 250’s International Parade of Sail features 48 tall ships from all over the world. The post The largest peacetime maritime gathering in U.S. history comes to New York City appeared first on Popular Science.