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Pseudoscience is a practice that, from the outside, looks like science, but upon closer inspection, is revealed to be nothing but. And what makes a practice look like science?

It probably comes as no surprise to people suffering through drastic weather this year that our planet is heating up. Climate change is the culprit and researchers continue to look for ways to mitigate its effects. A sci...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted small-scale super-fast changes in a jet of super-energetic plasma jet blasting out from a small black hole.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity selected four vendors to develop technologies and new approaches for tracking small debris objects in space. The post U.S. intelligence agency selects vendors for spac...

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most dependable annual showers, peaks on Aug. 12 and 13, and this year looks great for meteor watchers in North America.

Thanks to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, scientists have learned important new information about an incredibly massive galaxy cluster nearly 10 billion light-years from Earth.

Marvel Studios released a thrilling new trailer for "Loki" Season 2, revealing the series' time-hopping plot.

Three new animated videos introduce gamers to the cultures and people of "Starfield," a massive new open-galaxy role-playing game from the minds behind "Fallout 4" and "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."

A meandering plot, terrible graphics, and unremarkable aliens are the undoing of this indie space horror game.

Airbus and US space exploration firm Voyager Space announced Wednesday a joint venture to develop Starlab, a commercial alternative to replace the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of the decade.

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a communications satellite on Aug. 3 at 12:15 a.m. ET (0415 GMT), and you can watch it live.

A new image of the galaxy cluster known as "El Gordo" is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science. The infrared image, taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, dis...

A sophisticated new model capable of peering inside stars has produced its first results, and they appear to contradict a popular theory as to why large stars pulse in a strange way.

ESA's Euclid mission has made the journey through space to reach the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange Point. The two instruments on board have come online and taken their first images of the cosmos. The left side of the image was t...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Milky Way's neighbor, NGC 6822, glowing green and gold while punctuated by bright red and blue stars, revealing its lack of metal.

Innovative Rocket Technologies, known as iRocket, has signed an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion hardware. The post Startup iRocket signs agreement to develop...

So much in science is based on constraints. If scientists don’t understand something, they try to constrain it as much as possible so that more precise experiments can finally detect whatever the theorized phenomenon i...

Take a look at these stunning Full Sturgeon Moon photos from around the world. The first of two supermoons this month did not disappoint.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), European astronomers have discovered an eclipsing binary in the open cluster NGC 2232. The binary, designated TIC 43152097, is the first such system detected in ...

With the completion of a comprehensive flight software test campaign, NASA engineers are "counting down the days" as the metal-rich-asteroid-bound Psyche probe nears its October launch date.

This year the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of 12-13 August, giving skywatchers a potentially impressive summer treat. The meteors are best viewed from the northern hemisphere, and in ideal conditio...

Trained on a neural network on 6,000 stars, the EAGLES algorithm will be used on surveys of millions more.