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The Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars earlier this year on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, capturing the images along the way

In an episode of the cartoon, a machine lets characters swap bodies, but they can’t switch back with the same person. Math helps all the characters return to their original bodies

For the first time ever, astronomers have found two sibling stars that each exploded as a supernova, giving us a new view of these epochal cosmic cataclysms

The Arctic Ocean is one of the most extreme environments on Earth, but that’s not stopping this cephalopod

A hormone produced by the thymus helps tamp down age-related inflammation, a new study in mice found

Finding wildfires before they explode in size could save countless lives each year. Decades of technology development may finally make that possible

Astronomers have a plan to observe an errant piece of a SpaceX rocket as it hits the moon to better understand impact events

These meteor showers occur around the same time every year, with their peaks taking place over four days at the end of July

A new skull-based analysis of Neanderthal brains suggests that these ancient hominins’ range of intelligence largely overlapped with our own

The “hero’s journey” narrative structure seen in the ancient Greek story can help people make meaning in their own lives

Are GLP-1s for life? What we know about getting older on weight-loss drugs

Spoonerisms are among the most well-known speech errors, and for linguists and psychologists they offer a glimpse into how our brains produce speech