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Ken Bowersox and Steve Stich are out; Joel Montalbano and Dana Hutcherson are in.

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

A rare blood moon will light up North America on March 3, and here’s when and how to watch the total lunar eclipse.

Star-gazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA.

New details about cracks found in a Chinese spacecraft have emerged, revealing that the situation was even more serious.

For over 50 years, the Landsat program has provided the longest continuous satellite record of Earth’s land surface from space. Landsat 9, launched in 2021, is the latest mission in this remarkable legacy.

NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026. Actors Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller, screenwriter Drew Goddard, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Mill

Prehistoric humans had a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of geometric rules, as this study suggests.

In The Origin of Sex, the biology professor Lixing Sun investigates why so many species persist with it, when asexual reproduction is much easier

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.

Vulcan Centaur is supposed to launch more than a dozen missions for the U.S. Space Force this year, but those flights could now face months-long delays.

The first plesiosaur fossil found in Algeria provides new insights into ancient marine ecosystems and fills an important gap in the study of Cretaceous life.

With rollback of NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building complete, the agency will host a news conference at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 27. Live from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, leadership will discuss the work ahead for the t

There's a lot we still don't know.

New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, never-before-seen nodules that bear a striking resemblance to arachnid eggs. And researchers are struggling to explain them.

Forget everything you thought about life's origins. Scientists now say it all began not in a cell, but in a glob of protective primordial slime.

Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has str

On Thursday, NASA announced Joel Montalbano will serve as the acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and Dana Hutcherson will serve as the acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program.  SOMD’s programs and activ

These guys calmly explain a scene that could be straight out of a cosmic horror movie.

Decades-old toxic barrels are still leaking off California’s coast, carving ghostly white scars into the deep ocean floor and disrupting life below.

Nearly 3,000 meters below the Pacific, an expedition camera locked onto a seafloor formation so sharply geometric it triggered stunned reactions aboard the ship.

Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who feels frozen amid family conflict.

Undocking is expected at 12:05 p.m. ET today (Feb. 26).

Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its banks.