Science & SpaceIt has been 53 years since humans left low Earth orbit. The four astronauts now halfway to the Moon are flying a $4.1 billion rocket that the White House called "grossly expensive," in a spacecraft whose heat shield already failed once.
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Science & SpaceThere is an object at the center of our galaxy four million times more massive than the Sun. We photographed it in 2022. Here's what we know.
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Science & SpaceIn September 2025, NASA published the most compelling evidence ever found suggesting that ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars. A peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature describes a rock sample containing "potential biosignatures," the chemical and mineral traces that microbes leave behind when they eat, excrete, and die. The discovery was called "the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars." And every scientist involved immediately told the public to slow down.
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Science & SpaceGoogle's quantum chip just solved a problem 13,000 times faster than the world's most powerful supercomputer. Microsoft built a processor using a particle that may not even exist. IBM says practical quantum advantage arrives this year. Here's what any of that actually means.
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