An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to get knocked about by a visitor…
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Right now, ants are scurrying around every continent except Antarctica, doing the hard work of engineering ecosystems. They spread seeds,…
No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew past on its way out of…
THE PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO — Fran washed ashore in August, some 25 miles south of the Golden Gate…
The world’s largest body of physicists admitted on Monday that a report it had issued seven months ago contained errors…
Spiders have no shortage of strategies to capture their prey. Some hunt in packs, others set traps and some even…
Exploring an ancient river delta in a crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected samples of two rocks that…
Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of species of microbes — nobody is sure quite how many. That’s…
Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.…
In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, S.D., went to…