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Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.

The footage of the aurora over Earth's Southern Hemisphere was shared on Sunday by Jessica Meir, commander of NASA's Crew-12 mission.

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

Experts discuss the threat and how to escape aggressive bees. Hint: Don't jump in water.

NASA's next mission in its effort to return humans to the moon will be led by an all-male crew. Three of them have extensive experience in space, while the other was a backup on Artemis II.

Experts have been hopeful, but say the agency's lunar aspirations are largely at the whims of two billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Encryption systems rely on "random" numbers, but conventional computers can't generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.

NASA's moon-base plans are off to a slow start

The Artemis III astronauts who were announced today will have had less mission training time than their Artemis II counterparts.

The Artemis II mission transfixed the nation